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fogs-539	Linden, Ari	Textual Suicide, Divine Violence, and the Unwritten Law in Kafkas In der Strafkolonie	2008	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8073	373	59	The notion of the extreme emerges once again in Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” this time in the service of explaining the origin of mythic law, or, as we will see, of law as such. Benjamin understands mythic law to have both a law-creating and law-preserving function (though he separates the two), which can only be undone by the irruption of what he will call “divine violence.”	cache/fogs-539.pdf	txt/fogs-539.txt