benjaminianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Benjaminian (comparative more Benjaminian, superlative most Benjaminian)

1. Pertaining to German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin or his views.
   • 1996, Michael P. Steinberg, Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History, page 22:

     […] different perspectives on the applicability of Benjaminian positions for the practice of a cultural history.

   • 2021, Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence:

     He further finds that: “Gewalt, by means of the conversion it effects, transforms itself into another Gewalt; violence becomes power and authority.” Hannah Arendt, for whom power and violence are firmly distinguished, would surely object to this formulation, but it remains unclear whether she would have a sufficient rejoinder to the problem of legal violence, whether in its Benjaminian or Hobbesian form.