... in the vein of Strauss became pathologized and policed by critics, conductors, and state authorities, as composers lost their freedom of expression and exposure to the public. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 modernism biopolitics imperialism Richard Strauss Salome Sonderweg...

... writes that it was non-Jewish German intellectuals, such as Thomas Mann, who directly indicted Germany, its politics and culture, as a pathological Sonderweg and the main culprit of the disaster. This is not entirely convincing. Certainly, not all German Jewish emigrants rejected the Sonderweg...

... : 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...

... Zivilisation, versus the Germans, who purportedly had Kultur (633). According to this positive Sonderweg narrative, German Kultur was profound, while Zivilisation was superfi cial. By contrast, Wehler’s negative Sonderweg thesis attributes Germany’s social and political fl aws to the distinc- tion between...

..., “an indigenous German growth, a carcinoma of German flesh.”43 (I know, Frau Arendt, that throughout the years you resisted such a Sonderweg view. Did you not—somewhat exaggeratedly—proclaim that the German tradi- tion, “Luther or Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche . . . have not the least responsibility for what...

... a significant role in Alfred Barr’s powerful and influential coding of the twentieth century’s visual arts in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The German special path (Sonderweg) in the arts was explained, if not dismissed, with clichés about subjective expression, irrationalist frenzy, and dark...

... to pardon, or apologize, for Nazism insist on viewing it as the effect of exogenous causes. These included the political, economic, and social crises that plagued the Weimar Republic, together with the catastrophe that was World War I, the German Sonderweg, the structural pathologies inherent...

...— resulted directly from their encounter with Nazi tyranny. What, they asked, was 1. Klemens von Klemperer, “Naturrecht und der deutsche Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozial- ismus: Ein Beitrag zur Frage des deutschen ‘Sonderwegs Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 40, no. 3 (1992): 324; see also...

.... A. Dirk Moses 65 tional patriot’s reading of the past was necessarily critical, with he or she appro- priating only what accords with the universal principles of democratic con- stitutionalism.77 Only a constitutional patriotism, with its renunciation of the German Sonderweg, could ensure...