@article{ref1,
title="Undoing Legal Violence: Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's Aesthetics of Pure Means",
journal="Journal of law and society",
year="2007",
author="Morgan, Benjamin",
volume="34",
number="1",
pages="46-64",
abstract="Giorgio Agamben calls for a ‘playful’ relation to law as a way to counteract its inherent violence. Such a relation would prevent law from functioning as a means to an end, instead treating it as a ‘pure means.’ This article evaluates the significance of Agamben's proposal and of the concept of pure means, arguing that both implicitly draw on a Kantian model of aesthetic experience.<p />",
language="",
issn="0263-323X",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-6478.2007.00381.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2007.00381.x"
}