Understanding the messianic requires tracing law from force to corpse

Evidence

Finally, the messianic may begin to clarifY the apparent passage or relation from a “force of law” (Scholem’s “being in force without significance”) to a “form oflaw” (Kant’s “simple form oflaw”) and, finally, to a corpse oflaw. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 740

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the Scholem-to-Kant-to-corpse trajectory as a definitional spectrum of what counts as law.
• XREF: The ‘force of law without significance’ concept connects to Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’ and the general theory of law.