Morality, Law and the Place of Critique: Walter Benjamin's The Meaning of Time in the Moral World

Critical Horizons 12 (3):281 - 301 (2011)
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Critique as a philosophical concept needs to be recast once it is linked to the possibility of a productive opening. In such a context critique has an important affinity to destruction and forms of inauguration. Working through writings of Marx and Walter Benjamin, specifically Benjamin's 'The Meaning of Time in the Moral World', destruction and inauguration are repositioned in terns of othering and the caesura of allowing

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