%0 Journal Article
%T Undoing Legal Violence: Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's Aesthetics of Pure Means
%J Journal of law and society
%D 2007
%A Morgan, Benjamin
%V 34
%N 1
%P 46-64
%X 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 />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0263-323X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2007.00381.x