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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 159–191.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 neoliberalism affect absolute refusal Gilles Deleuze Enno Patalas Having spent the last twenty years researching German postunification cinema, especially the filmmakers of the so-called Berlin School, I am increasingly interested in how...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2006
...” (ND, 17). By expressing itself, the subject frees itself from itself and from the captured and reduced object concealed behind every unful- filled need ND( , 92). Taken to the extreme, expressive absolution inaugurates one’s ecstatic existence outside oneself, the existence no longer encumbered...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 1–30.
Published: 01 November 2021
... absolute authority over proclamations about the ultimate nature of reality, it exists in tension with mythology and religion, both of which equally make assertions about the eternal order of things and our place within it. Despite this tension, objective reason—as it was resurrected in the Renaissance...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 225–235.
Published: 01 February 2022
... on the theme of “unburdening from the absolute”—the task of human beings to keep an overwhelming reality at bay. Marquard thus interprets him mainly as a proponent of the German current of “philosophical anthropology.” The text also sheds light on Blumenberg’s relationship to finitude, his life...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 33–45.
Published: 01 November 2012
... intersubjectivity, in other words, that is not absolute and mechanical but is not altogether relative either. Instrumental science, by laying claim to a depersonalized absolute, as Husserl insisted in his last book, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, erases the self, dam...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 5–8.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., racism, and other abuse; and subtly inform the ideological historiography that builds on such claims. In The Bonds of Love I suggested that the fear of losing the moral edge, as we called it among ourselves, led to a problematic refusal to examine how the dominated, in this case women...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 67–97.
Published: 01 February 2015
...-Evangeliums” (“The Eschatology of the Gospel of St. John In setting up the problem, Bultmann followed Barth’s example. He remarked on the absolute transcendence of God, and thus humanity’s banishment to the World: “Man comes to everything that he does from the world, as one who is himself world” (EJE...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and his world. In so doing, however, it soon became evident that Blumenberg cast doubt on the existence of anything that may be characterized as “absolute.” His refusal to recognize the existence of an absolute—be it God, humanity, existence, or the self-constitutive subject itself—is the only...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... formation. Reassurance makes bearing brushes with the absolutism of reality tolerable. So attention from receptive others can be consoling ( BDM , 624), and so might myths and stories that “delegate” our suffering or consolation rituals that diffuse suffering and facilitate emotional processing. For example...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
...., through an “absolute construction”) and thus become autonomous? This would require breaking from the dependency on the image, since this is one aspect that makes film heteronomous. Might not formalism and a negation of the mechanically reproduced image achieve this? Can filmmakers emulate the techniques...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to the prospect of an alternative philosophical criticism. Transience means not just the passing of all things into and then out of existence. It discloses the status of a subject/object as the absolute negation of Spirit, not just as temporary, but as annihilated. The transient object’s passage out of existence...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 193–215.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Medea in Christa Wolf’s novel, Medea: Stimmen —shows that her actions, which have no means at their disposal, are effective in that they exercise a form of active apathy: Medea acts by withdrawing from the effects of the patriarchal order, especially in her refusal of the affects that are expected from...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 37–49.
Published: 01 November 2023
... absolutely could not have done the work I am doing had I stayed in Europe. (My dissertation adviser told me that if I wanted a job at a German university, I needed to work on something other than race. And of course he was absolutely right.) I often meet amazing young students and scholars of color...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 123–144.
Published: 01 November 2017
... bereft of it.2 It is as if Job in the Hebrew Bible were confronted not with an ineffable God but with God’s satanic opposite, who tortures Job for reasons that he refuses to divulge.3 The conventional rhetoric of tragedy, sacrifice, and mar- tyrdom all reveal themselves to be woefully...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
... institutions, including religion. Yet even Mikhail Bakunin speaks of anarchism in terms of religious tradition: We recognize the absolute authority of science, but we reject the infallibility and universality of the savant . In our church—if I may be permitted to use for a moment an expression which I so...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 89–128.
Published: 01 August 2011
...- tems, Kojève finds them equally real and ontologically independent from each other. He seeks, moreover, to separate this “whole” constructed by the inter- action of the two systems from experience in general, insofar as he refuses to efface the independence of the observed system from...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2018
... into an absolutization of the unpresentable . Similarly to Adorno and Lyotard, Rancière is a critic of representation and goes so far as to oppose “aesthetics” to “representation” as two opposed regimes of identification of art. On the other hand, he refuses to enthrone the unpresentable, thereby distancing himself from...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 155–178.
Published: 01 February 2023
.... Instead, he imagined “a national community that would reject everything, but absolutely everything, that it accomplished in the days of its own deepest degradation, and what here and there may appear to be as harmless as the Autobahns,” the system of more than two thousand miles of highway constructed...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the absolute and the stubborn refusal to accept anything less—we arrive at the great lesson that Schoenberg teaches us. To overcome the stultify- ing mechanisms of the culture industry, we require an authentic artistic work that, although it is doomed, necessarily challenges the system. In this way...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 65–76.
Published: 01 August 2006
... is also not interpreted, it is simply there. And then there is a voice, and it is there and it is also not interpreted. I fi nd this important. It is a very democratic concept of theater.”1 Certainly the radicality of Wilsonʼs steadfast refusal to participate in authorial prescription 1...