... 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Hans Blumenberg metaphor French theory modernity References Adams David . 1991 . “Metaphors for Mankind: The Development of Hans Blumenberg's Anthropological Metaphorology.” Journal of the History of Ideas 52 , no. 3 : 152 – 66...

... of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and Gestalt theory; and the rise of phenomenology. It argues that German-educated Russian émigrés were central to transforming French thought, in particular a new kind of phenomenological and antifoundational realism and a new understanding of the body...

... attempt to make Leonardo da Vinci relevant for the French poet’s age. Comparing Blumenberg’s comments on contemporary art with those in US formalist art criticism (Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried) provides a unique constellation of later modernist thinking on the plastic arts (painting and sculpture...

... are primarily motivated by his philosophy of history. Hegel accurately sensed the loss of faith in historical progress that Schiller experienced in the wake of the French Revolution; in essays written shortly before Wallenstein appeared, Schiller associates the tragic sublime with humans' ability to act...

...-Week08_Nov4_JamesClifford.pdf . Cunningham Valentine . 2005 . “Theory? What Theory?” In Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent , edited by Patai Daphne Corral Will H. , 24 – 41 . New York : Columbia University Press . Cusset François . 2008 . French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze...

... : University of Pittsburgh Press . Breger Claudia . 2009 . “Zur Debatte um den ‘Sonderweg deutsche Medienwissenschaft.’” Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft , no. 3 : 124 – 27 . Cusset François . 2008 . French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Co. Transformed the Intellectual...

... in the United States alone, logging higher ratings of viewer and critic approval than even Game of Thrones . 55 Arguably, the most systematic criticism of humanism was undertaken by French Theory. 77 For French thinkers, the critique of humanism, in which they followed Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl...

..., has been a concern for Verso. The problems faced by German theory as a whole are not, however, unique: French theory, too, is perceived to be well past its own golden age, and the malaise is felt there, too, as another editor told me: “There are no real heirs to the big names of yore.”20...

..., asked if he would assist him by translating Ecce Homo into French (Nietz- sche to August Strindberg, December 8, 1888, in KGB, III.5, 507–9). Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen 27 mania began escalating during 1888, Nietzsche’s theory of the global pathways of his...

..., Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilbert Simondon—these concepts came to define the place of Husserl in modern thought. Husserl's phenomenology structured the use and meaning of these concepts for a new generation of French philosophy; at the same time, it came under increased scrutiny, at least in part on account...

... . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Carr David . 1987 . Review of Futures Past . History and Theory 26 , no. 3 : 197 – 204 . Christofferson Michael Scott . 1999 . “An Anti-totalitarian History of the French Revolution: François Furet's Penser la Révolution in the Intellectual Politics...

..., and instead to identify it with philosophy. Conversely, theory is reduced to a narrow canon of texts from the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Theory and “French theory”). By contrast, one might assume that theory and philosophy are “forms in their own right,” like commentary and critique. Granting these forms...

... film. Reading articles by Grafe, Althen wrote in an evocative obituary, could be a humbling experience. Indeed, at times her texts made him feel “incredibly blind.” 11 None of the young critics (except Fritz Göttler) shared Grafe’s profound conversance with French theory, much less her acute...

...: Geschichte und Psychoanalyse , 44 – 58 . Vienna : Turia und Kant . Deleuze Gilles Guattari Félix . 1977 . Rhizom . Berlin : Merve . Descombes Vincent . 1980 . Modern French Philosophy , translated by Scott-Fox L. Harding J. M. . Cambridge : Cambridge University...

... on with the work of Benja- min, Adorno’s teacher and opponent. The “Frankfurt School,” alias “critical theory,” and French “deconstruction” (both designations are, of course, extremely broad and vague) were in many ways parallel, originating in Ger- man idealism and taking a critical stand versus...

... of the characters McKay may well have had in mind.23 Moholy-Nagy did not seem to be aware that the same site had recently fascinated filmmakers working in the French context: Jean Epstein, who was born in Poland and had grown up in Switzerland before moving to France, set his fictional film of a “found...

..., the French philosophers and readers of the animals in Kafka.23 While Adorno argues that animality functions as an index of what reason has repressed, Deleuze and Guattari develop a psychoanalytic reading of the human’s encounter with the animal within, which, in their study of Kafka, they refer...

.... With the name Lyotard we now encounter the third barrier to an Anglo- phone understanding of Luhmann’s system theory, namely, the loosely knit web of late twentieth-century French thought brought together under the name of poststructuralism. Think for a moment of terms commonly associated with Luhmann...

... MDCCLXXVI (1776) are engraved. Many of the symbols are represented thirteenfold, and two of the mottoes con- tain exactly thirteen characters. Thousands of conspiracy home pages refer to these facts and are impressed by their compelling evidence. Partisans of a theory of complot (as the French may...

... of his home, dealing only with himself and his discipline. Instead, he expressed a lively and living interest in the world of his time and in all its dimensions: a constant, almost restless movement of searching for what is new. In 1806 he composed a small autobiographical tract in French...