Abstract

Terror is no doubt a violent tool serving political ends of some sort. Nevertheless, terror has a phenomenality of its own. This discussion attempts at striping terror from its political ends while purposing to view it as a phenomenological event manifesting nothing but sheer violence. Following the thought of Benjamin and Derrida, the discussion looks at terror as a phenomenological event manifesting the spectral return of primordial violence. The eruption of the violence of terror is thus thought as a constant reminder of the illegal and violent foundation that founds sovereign law.