The violence of law and the problem of justice in Benjamin and Derrida

The aim of the present study is to reveal the problematic relation between violence, law and justice by the thought of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. Following the argument that violence is inherent to the law and power, we discuss the problematic situation of justice. In this context, while Benjamin finds the "possibility" of the justice beyond the sphere of the law and power, Derrida shows us how the justice is an experience of impossibility doing deconstruction of the law. We conclude that justice cannot be reduced to the violence and to the limits of the political-juridical system. Keywords : violence, law, justice, destruction, Walter Benjamin, déconstruction, Jacques Derrida, political theology