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German New Lefts: Postwar Socialists between Past and Future
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 117–149.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Terence Renaud Abstract The New Left that arose in West Germany during the 1960s mimicked the antifascist reformations of the 1930s. For grassroots campaigns, extraparliamentary opposition groups, and radical student organizations of the postwar decades, the Marxist humanist theories...
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Joachim Bruhn’s Left-Wing Critique of Anti-Zionism and the Capitalist State in the 1990s: An Intellectual History of the Antideutsche
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 125–157.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the Antideutsche movement liquidated its critical edge around the turn of the century. Bruhn drew on German leftist national self-hatred from the nineteenth century to the 1970s New Left, Moishe Postone’s theory of structural anti-Semitism from the 1970s, and the Frankfurt School’s critique of “state capitalism...
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“Half a Heart and Double Zeal”: Critical Theory's Afterlife in the United States
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 225–240.
Published: 01 November 2017
... with the political failure of the New Left and the student movement and (2) an unconscious encounter with the American particularity vis-à-vis Europe. As such, the article advances an understanding of what it means to speak of critical theory's “temporal core.” The notion of “afterlife,” the article argues, serves...
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Torture and Masculinity in George Grosz's Interregnum
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 137–165.
Published: 01 August 2013
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Shepherd, From Bohemia to the Barricades: Erich Mühsam and the Development of a Revolution-
ary Drama (New York: Lang, 1993); Walter Fähnders, “Anarchism and Homosexuality in Wil-
helmine Germany: Senna Hoy, Erich Mühsam, John Henry Mackay,” in Gay Men and the Sexual
History of the Political Left, ed...
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Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon's and Gershom Scholem's German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 33–54.
Published: 01 February 2014
... now left
Berlin again and moved to the count’s estate in Lower Silesia, where he contin-
ued his writing and drinking. Maimon died penniless, far from his family, in
19. For an overview of mystical techniques in the Jewish kabbalistic tradition, see Moshe Idel,
Kabbalah: New Perspectives...
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Intellectuals, Philosophy, and Politics in Dark Times: Interview of Ágnes Heller by Waldemar Bulira
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 161–199.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., and the Holocaust, as well as the fragility of liberal democracy in contemporary modern society. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by New German Critique, Inc. 2025 Ágnes Heller Budapest School Holocaust New Left liberal democracy Waldemar Bulira: From...
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Write and Resist: Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann on the Role of Natural Law in Fighting Nazi Tyranny
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 197–230.
Published: 01 November 2015
... that they would think about anti-Nazi resistance in terms of natural law, with its largely religious underpinnings and often reactionary uses. But despite their new and changed circumstances—Neumann left Germany in April 1933, while Fraenkel remained until September 1938—both men did turn to natural law. Fraenkel...
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Searching for a Storyteller, Remediating the Archive: Philip Scheffner’s Halfmoon Files
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 103–124.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Olivia Landry Abstract Spurred by the search for the identity of a colonial soldier captured in Germany during World War I, who left his trace in the form of a story in the sound archive in Berlin, Philip Scheffner’s documentary film The Halfmoon Files (2007) is an excavation of an obscured moment...
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Daniel Richter and the Problem of Political Painting Today
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 133–160.
Published: 01 November 2009
... probably expresses his antiwar sentiment—Schroeder’s deci-
sion to intervene in Kosovo being interpreted as a right-wing act by an osten-
sibly left-wing chancellor.
Drawing on magazine photographs and other artifacts of mass culture
to make a political point is, of course, nothing new in fi ne art...
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Pushing the Defensive Wall of the State Forward: Terrorism and Civil Liberties in Germany
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 109–133.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Party in the most confrontational phase of the Cold War. The second
examines how the much more secure and prosperous West German state and
society handled the emergence not only of a large and diverse New Left stu-
dent movement but also of radicalized, self-styled urban guerrilla groups.
Despite...
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The Institutionalization of Memory Politics in a Hybrid Political Regime: The Figure, Legacy, and Appropriation of György Lukács in Hungary between 2010 and 2020
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 131–152.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... However, 1968 saw changes on this front: not only because of the global student movements, the reception of the Vietnam war, and the emergence of the New Left, but also, and much closer to home, because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of that year. The post-1956 Hungarian oppositional...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... The politics and aesthetics of the New Left, at least in Germany, were strongly inspired by Lukács, and some of the conflicts within the New Left were fought over Lukács’s legacy. The 1987 special section of New German Critique on Lukács (no. 42) explores “the legacy of Georg Lukács” (to quote Peter Uwe...
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The Pleasure and Pain of Passing as (Dis)abled: Rudi Dutschke’s Exile in the United Kingdom (1968–1971) and the Ableism of the West German Student Movement
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2021
... , and Nella Larsen’s Passing . See Ramsey, “Study of Black Identity” ; and Pfeiffer, Race Passing and American Individualism . 36. Lingel, “Adjusting the Borders.” 37. Brune and Wilson, introduction, 2. 38. Unlike other critical theorists whose works have influenced the New Left...
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Andy Rabinbach as an Inspiration for a Work of Feminist Theory
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 5–8.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and Psychology—II,”
New Left Review, no. 47 (1968): 97.
New German Critique 117, Vol. 39, No. 3, Fall 2012
DOI 10.1215/0094033X-1677219 © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc.
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recognition of their value, or worth...
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Introduction
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 1–4.
Published: 01 November 2012
... has been a consistently critical voice.
Just as in the early 1970s he challenged the pieties of both orthodox Marxism
and the New Left, he has always provided a compass to navigate against the
currents of idées reçues of any kind. His most recent book, on key concepts of
the Cold War...
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In Memoriam David Bathrick
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): iii–xiv.
Published: 01 November 2020
... visiting research professorship at Humboldt University in 1982–83 got him a Stasi file and the code name Diabolo. The Stasi, citing his Ledernacken (Marine Corps) training and describing him as a Lebemensch , had him (and NGC ) pegged as part of the New Left and thus anticommunist, whereas for the FBI...
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World Literature and Socialist Internationalism in the Weimar Republic: Five Theses
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... literature played in National Socialist Germany, see Mani, Recoding World Literature , 152–77 . References Anderson Perry . “ Internationalism: A Breviary .” New Left Review , no. 14 ( 2002 ): 5 – 25 . Becher Johannes R. “ Einen Schritt weiter! ” Die Linkskurve 2 , no. 1...
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Occupation as Critique: Left-Wing Student Organizing in Frankfurt and San Diego, 1969
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 21–43.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Freudian shadow across the reception of both the Frankfurt School and the West German New Left. Witnesses, commentators, and scholars alike have found in it proof of Adorno’s quietist philosophy, 6 of the SDS’s pseudorevolutionary aspirations, 7 and of the generational conflict that allegedly...
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What Was Theory? Toward a Generic History
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Just as high modernism began to
dispute the virtues of commonsensical thinking, the generation of the New Left
gained momentum against political pragmatism as a movement of abstract-
minded theory devotees. From the West German edition suhrkamp to Louis
Althusser’s Théorie series, from Tel Quel...
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The Antigone Effect: Reinterring the Dead of Night and Fog in the German Autumn
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
... to protest Israeli imperialism. The turning point of the New Left’s com-
plicated relation to Israel began in 1967 with the Six Days’ War, when Israel,
in a preemptive strike, defeated the armies of the surrounding Arab states.
Members of Germany’s center-left government, along with the conservative...
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