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in Against Aspiration: The Psychogeography of Berlin-Kreuzberg in Stephan Geene’s Umsonst
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 1. The director of the film within a film and his aesthetics of restraint.
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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...
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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
... long-standing concern with colonialism and imperialism and with how they were encountered and resisted. 16. Buch, Pathos of the Real , 114–15 . 17. Weiss, Die Ästhetik des Widerstands ; Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance . Hereafter cited in the text as ÄdW and AoR with volume...
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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 (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 (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...
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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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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 159–185.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Alex Potts This article explores an often overlooked, broadly realist aspect of Weiss’s engagement with visual art in The Aesthetics of Resistance . Analysis of the role played in the novel by painted depiction usually focuses on dramatic stagings of figures engaged in violent struggle. The focus...
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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 (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 (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 159–191.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Marco Abel Focusing on Johannes Schaaf’s neglected film Tätowierung ( Tattoo , 1967), this essay revisits a film-theoretical and film-political debate in West Germany around 1968 that involved a conflict between the so-called political Left and the aesthetic Left. Attending to the kinds of violence...
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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)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Theodor W. Adorno film aesthetic heteronomy semblance mechanical reproduction Can film, as a nonautonomous form of art, be a medium for social critique? For a long time it was thought that for Theodor W. Adorno the answer was a clear no. There is much evidence to support this position: his...
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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 (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
Published: 01 August 2021
... an antidote to current all-inclusive conceptualizations of form. Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Theodor W. Adorno Aesthetic Theory form Critical Theory philology Half a century after Theodor W. Adorno’s death, the forbidding fragments of his Aesthetic Theory , whose...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 27–43.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Neil Levi New German Critique, Inc. 2007 Carl Schmitt and the Question of the Aesthetic
Neil Levi
More than twenty years after his death, the works of the German jurist and
political thinker Carl Schmitt seem more alive than ever...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 2023
... or Literature and Democracy , written shortly after World War II. References Adorno Theodor W. Negative Dialectics . Translated by Ashton E. B. . New York : Continuum , 1971 . Adorno Theodor W. “ Reconciliation under Duress .” In Aesthetics and Politics , edited...
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