Thinking violence. Benjamin's Readers.

Abstract

In what follows the reader will find an exposition of Benjamin's text For a Critique of
Violence, the interpretation made by Derrida, Honneth, Žižek, among others, as well as
Bernstein's comment on those readings. Derrida has associated the Benjamin text with the
"final solution", grouping it into the forms of thought that justify or make possible acts
similar to those facts. Honneth looks for an affable outlet, turning towards a proposal for a
cultural revolution. Žižek associates the resentment that humans experience to explain
historical events, which are examples of pure or divine violence, which are caused by love
that seeks good. Bernstein will accept the reading of Derrida, which he considers a product
of imagination. He appreciates Honneth's performance, he finds it enlightening. He rejects
the idea of reducing guilt to the conscience of the person responsible for violent acts, who
silently and autonomously judges himself for the acts committed, seems to him
inadmissible; he considers that violence should be a community discussion supported by
fallibilist pluralism.