The book includes Walter Benjamin’s provocative and influential essay “Critique of Violence” (1921), as well as texts that accompany and illuminate it from several perspectives. Among these contributions and comments are the texts of Petar Bojanić that open and close the book, Benjamin’s posthumously published fragments, important for the reconstruction of the guiding idea in the essay, as well as the texts “War” (1915/16) by Erich Unger and “Anti-Cain” (1919) by Kurt Hiller, which are considered the inspiration for Benjamin’s essay and to which he refers directly. The main topic of this extremely complex text is the relationship between law and violence (divine, revolutionary …), that is, the question of whether violence as a means can be justified. The central essay of the volume is published in both the German original and a revised translation into Serbian.