%0 Journal Article
%T Law and Violence
%J Law and literature
%D 2010
%A Menke, Christoph
%V 22
%N 1
%P 1-17
%X The relationship between law and violence is paradoxically structured: law is the opposite of violence, since legal forms of decision-making disrupt the spell of violence generating more violence. At the same time, law is itself a kind of violence; because it imposes a judgment that determines its "subject" like a curse. This article reads tragedy (notably Aesychylus's Oresteia and Sophocles' King Oedipus) as articulating this paradoxical entwinement between law and violence and uses this tragic insight for a critical discussion of Benjamin's "Critique of Violence."<p />
%G 
%I University of California Press
%@ 1535-685X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/lal.2010.22.1.1