The Weakness of Justice: Walter Benjamin on the Critique of Law

Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" is a piece of work that fused the historical materialism with the messianic thought. His criticism on violence was mainly founded on his philosophy of history, and thus transform this seemingly a pure political issue into a question of political theology. While Benjamin's concept of divine violence, the real justice could only found in the divine violence in the end, and only the divine violence could transcend the legitimacy crisis which caused by the state that had confused the law-making and law-preserving.