班雅明的〈暴力批判〉是一篇融合歷史唯物論與彌賽亞思想之作，他對暴力之批判主要是奠基於其歷史哲學框架內上，從而將這個本來看似純政治領域的議題轉化成政治神學的問題。當代學者如阿岡本及齊澤克在解析班雅明之神聖暴力概念時，都清楚揭示出班雅明如何在論理上將彌賽亞思想與歷史唯物論給銜接起來，因此真正的正義最終將只能存在於神聖的暴力中，也只有後者才能超越那混淆了立法與護法的國家機器所造成的正當性危機。

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.