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Death Writes: Franz Kafka, Tubercular Soundscapes, and the Place of Literature
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 31–55.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Stefani Engelstein Analyzing previously unexplored medical records of Franz Kafka, this article reveals the significance of tubercular lung sounds—internal yet inaudible to the patient—for his penultimate story, “The Burrow.” Modern audio recordings of the sounds described for Kafka’s lungs...
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Reading Kafka, Writing Vita : The Trials of the Kafka Scholar Eduard Goldstücker
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 129–161.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Veronika Tuckerová This article examines Eduard Goldstücker's construction of his own vita through his complex engagement with Franz Kafka from 1963 to 1989. Archival documents about Goldstücker's trial and surveillance, found in the archives of the Secret Police in Prague, help us understand...
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Justice for Josef K.: Bringing Myth to an End in Kafka's Trial
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Christopher Conti Walter Benjamin's great essay on Franz Kafka exemplifies his philosophical praxis, which exhumes the prehistoric substrate of modernity to expose the myth of progress in modernity's claim to epochal legitimacy. Benjamin's physiognomic thinking endows Kafka with the features of his...
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Adorno on Kafka: Interpreting the Grimace on the Face of Truth
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 175–198.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Roger Foster Foster argues that Theodor W. Adorno's interpretation of Franz Kafka makes possible an understanding of literature's critical role in society while avoiding the twin pitfalls of reducing the literary work's significance to an echo of contemporary social and political ideas...
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Kafka’s Animations: Trick Films, Narrative, Reification
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Brook Henkel Abstract Around 1910 trick films by Edwin S. Porter, Émile Cohl, and others fascinated writers and critics by bringing objects to life and upending the dominant roles of human actors found in drama and literature. The animated objects and thing-like humans in Franz Kafka’s writings...
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Defending Lateness: Deliberations on Acceleration, Attention, and Lateness, 1900–2000
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 31–48.
Published: 01 August 2015
... that interrogate modernity and its prioritization of mobility and speed: first, the moral interpretation of lateness as a stigma (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann); second, the psychic view of lateness as a condition of perception (Georg Simmel, Franz Kafka, Robert Walser); and third, the psychoanalytic...
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Fragile Matters: Literature and the Scene of Torture
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., the article proposes a fourfold typology of torture by looking at representative examples from Aeschylus's Prometheus to Franz Kafka's “In the Penal Colony” and Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits . The article contends that the incommunicability of torture challenges not only the literary ethics...
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At the Door of the Theater: Kafka’s Oklahama Theater and the Nature Theater Movement
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and allows us to reflect on the dangers as well as the possibilities of modernity. Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Franz Kafka Der Verschollene Amerika gestures state of exception Franz Kafka’s novel Der Verschollene ( The Man Who Disappeared , also referred...
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Insuring Nietzsche: Kafka's Files
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 83–119.
Published: 01 November 2006
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83
84 Kafkaʼs Files
was incomplete. It was in Prague, in the same spring of 1883 when Nietzsche
gave birth to his favorite son and double, Zara thustra, that his fi rst true reader
(in time and rank) was born: Franz Kafka, eldest child of Julie and Hermann
Kafka, the latter the head...
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The Ethics of Animals in Adorno and Kafka
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 159–178.
Published: 01 February 2006
... with discourses on the animal by other think-
ers, such as Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Hélène Cixous,
Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas.6
4. Jay Bernstein, “Mastered by Nature: Abstraction, Independence, and the Simple Concept,” in
Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (Cambridge...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2024
... powers cease to be invincible” (“Franz Kafka” [1977], 415; “Franz Kafka” [1999], 799). As Adorno comments, “The fairy tale arises as the outwitting [ Überlistung ] of myth or its refraction” ( Adorno and Benjamin, Briefwechsel , 93 ; Complete Correspondence , 69 ). 8. As Eva Geulen writes...
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Habent Sua Fata Libelli : The Collector as Augur
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 189–205.
Published: 01 November 2012
... might say that
the collector has a sense for what would have happened. In Benjamin’s writ-
ings on Franz Kafka, we find a story that may help make better sense of this
claim. I recount the story here in its entirety:
In a Hasidic village, so the story goes, Jews were sitting together...
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The Jerusalem School: The Theopolitical Hour
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 97–120.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of exception, an absolutizing of katarēgsis [no-longer-at-work]”
(TTR, 108).
7. Vivan Liska, Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin,
Franz Kafka (Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor, 2008), 7. My translation.
100 The Jerusalem School
Historically speaking, Buber’s story...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2006
... years of the Vietnam War.
The essays on literary and fi lmic texts all open up surprisingly novel
perspectives. Benno Wagner reads Franz Kafka as the “fi rst reader” of Fried-
rich Nietzsche in relation to the biopolitics of risk and insurance, danger and
uninsurability. Stefanie Harris explores...
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Beyond Gnosticism and Magic
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... correlate of late idealism’s hypertrophy of the
subject (K, 112). He finds it in Franz Kafka’s inability to distinguish between
the Creator and the Devil (“Portrait,” 235) and in Samuel Beckett’s supposed
nihilism, which “gnostically” understands the “world as it has been created
as radically evil...
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Katja Petrowskaja’s Translational Poetics of Memory
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
... , 16, 18). But their interpretation of Franz Kafka’s specific linguistic situation as a Czech urban Jew whose first language was German is ambiguous in the sense that at times they attribute this linguistic difference to Prague German and at others to Kafka’s aesthetic treatment of language...
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Ernst Bloch, Ungleichzeitigkeit , and the Philosophy of Being and Time
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 49–64.
Published: 01 August 2015
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already know. The darkness of the lived moment thus becomes the bridge
between kata to dynaton and dynámei ón. Where Franz Kafka saw culture and
art as the ax with which to break the frozen sea within, Bloch saw it as the
spark that would ignite the bright “utopian star” in us and thence...
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The Terror of Reproduction: Early Cinema's Ghostly Doubles and the Right to One's Own Image
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 151–170.
Published: 01 November 2006
... soul in signing a fi lm contract
was also echoed in a 1913 letter by Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer. After describ-
ing to his fi ancé fi lm posters from the lobby of a Prague movie theater, Kafka
concludes: “B. has lent himself to something beneath him.” Kafka imagines
Bassermann after the shooting...
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Hermann Hesse's Colonial Uncanny: Robert Aghion , 1913
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2014
... publication of Aus Indien, we see, in addition to Hesse (Singapore and Port Said) and Freud
(Italy), Waldemar Bonsels (Bombay, 1903), Bernhard Kellermann (Tokyo, 1907), Hanns Heinz
Ewers (Igatpuri, 1910), Franz Kafka and Max Brod (Milan, Paris, 1911), Hermann Keyserling (Kyoto,
1912), and Ernst...
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Confounded Dwelling: Architectures of Association in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 99–139.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Robertson, “Playing House” As Theodor W. Adorno once said of Franz Kafka, so we may say of W. G. Sebald: what baffles and eludes us in his work may one day provide the key to the whole. 1 Sebald’s rise to international acclaim was meteoric, the critical consensus of his accomplishment swift; yet...
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