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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Max Pensky Abstract Theodor W. Adorno’s claim in Aesthetic Theory that artworks have a truth content, and that this truth content in turn depends on philosophical interpretation, is among the work’s most challenging and obscure claims. This article argues that “The Idea of Natural History...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 27–43.
Published: 01 August 2007
... it means to call ostensibly political ideas aesthetic. By emphasizing the
importance of the question of the aesthetic, I argue for a more complex and
polysemous understanding of the relationship between the aesthetic and the
political. I therefore reject polemical notions of “aestheticized” politics...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 73–118.
Published: 01 February 2006
... Delusion
experience is to be distinguished from aestheticization, where illusion and real-
ity are no longer simultaneously registered (as they are in aesthetic experience)
but—often with the best, radical, world-changing intentions—collapsed into
identity, so that what was once differentiated...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., Bubner warns that aestheticizing
theory places a theory of the aesthetic in danger of becoming “entangled in a
semblance which is not the one of which it speaks” and that it would be well
advised finally to disown “the attempt to allow theory to become aesthetic,”
which can end only badly...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Samir Gandesha The “Aesthetic Dignity of Words”:
Adorno’s Philosophy of Language
Samir Gandesha
There can be little doubt that Jürgen Habermas has decisively set the terms of
the reception of Theodor W. Adorno’s work. Indeed, Habermas’s...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 55–69.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Ross Wilson This essay examines the significance for Theodor W. Adorno of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics. Adorno's philosophy insists, on the one hand, on truth to objects, while, on the other hand, defending subjective experience against overhasty dismissals of it. Adorno rejects the castigation...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 2021
... little it can be pinned down, does not.” 1 This hopeful remark appears in Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory , a work that was first published in 1970, just a year after the author’s death. Fifty years later we can still hear in this remark a double entendre. In both art and personal life, we must...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
Published: 01 August 2021
... style and his concepts, philosophemes and theorems, separates these new readers from older criticism. A 1980 volume devoted to Aesthetic Theory laments the perceived aestheticization of social theory, meaning not only Adorno’s stylistic idiosyncrasies but the overall turn toward aesthetics in his...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
... by film’s representational base and its inability to achieve a neutral standpoint through the use of montage, which arranges the material without dominating it. Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Theodor W. Adorno film aesthetic heteronomy semblance mechanical reproduction...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 43–61.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in passing in his Aesthetic Theory and that was, in turn, deeply influenced by the thought of Kandinsky’s nephew Alexandre Kojève, who also wrote an essay on his uncle’s paintings. This genealogy of motifs is of more than mere historical and anecdotal significance. At stake is nothing less than an accurate...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 2023
... for dismissing Friedrich Engels’s “dialectics of nature”; and—perhaps most famously, thoroughly, and unfairly—by Theodor W. Adorno, who opposed Lukács’s views on aesthetics and philosophy. For Adorno, Lukács’s theory of literary realism and his opposition to modernism and the avant-garde amounted...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
...” of subjective destruction enacted by Adorno's text because they reduce the latter to the symptoms of a loss that defies expression as a matter of principle. © 2008 by New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Putting the Dialectic back in
Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia
and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of the Fishermen of St. Barbara at the intersection of modernism and workers' movement literature and argues that such literature should be understood as part of a broadly conceived literary modernism. Reorienting modernist aesthetics toward a poetics of collectivity and viewing modernity through a spatial poetics...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Caroline Rupprecht This article focuses on the fictionalized character of the Soviet spy Richard Stahlmann, who was attributed with “Asian eyes” by Peter Weiss, in volume 3 of The Aesthetics of Resistance . In a passage that describes Stahlmann’s visit to Angkor Wat, the character’s identity crisis...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Kai Evers; Julia Hell; Seth Howes In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 43–63.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as a kind of initiation into the very ‘aesthetic of resistance’ that is announced in the title of the novel.” He and his comrades seek “not just to endow the resistance with a lineage [of noble suffering] that would dignify it,” Buch continues, but to “recognize the ubiquity and persistence of violence...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 135–157.
Published: 01 November 2022
... examines the transhistorical resourcefulness of Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands ( The Aesthetics of Resistance ) with regard to contemporary challenges. Schooled in antifascism’s failures of the 1930s and 1940s, The Aesthetics abounds in detailed engagements with literary and visual works of art...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 65–91.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Stefan Jonsson Starting out from the interpretation of Picasso’s Guernica in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance , this essay discusses how, why, and for what purposes Weiss inserted extensive discussions of classical and contemporary artworks in his novel. More specifically...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Kai Evers Starting from Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the openness of the future and the function of promises for political action, this essay offers a new understanding of the political pedagogy at work in The Aesthetics of Resistance . Rather than being narrated by the author’s proxy, as much...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 113–133.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Richard Langston Peter Weiss made no secret of the importance of form for his magnum opus The Aesthetics of Resistance . “Again and again [I’ve made] new attempts at finding a form for the book,” he wrote early on in its conception. This authorial search is, in fact, far more complicated than...
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