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Unfolding Political Emergence: The Knowledge of Visual Artworks in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance

Stefan Jonsson
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965318
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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Stahlmann’s “Asian Eyes”: Jewish Identity in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance , Volume 3

Caroline Rupprecht
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965388
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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Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance

Kai Evers, Julia Hell, Seth Howes
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965276
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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We Can Come Very Close to Them: Solidarity and the Struggle for Liberation in The Aesthetics of Resistance

Seth Howes
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 43–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965304
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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Renewing Resistance at Sea and on Isles: Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance , Volume 2, for the Twenty-First Century

Matthew D. Miller
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 135–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965360
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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Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance

Kai Evers
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965290
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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Marxist and Formless : Uncanny Materialism in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance

Richard Langston
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 113–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965346
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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Pictorial Realism in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance

Alex Potts
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 159–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965374
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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Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers's Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara

Christoph Schaub
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2824261
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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The director of the film within a film and his <span class="search-highlight">aesthetics</span> of restraint.

The director of the film within a film and his aesthetics of restraint.

in Against Aspiration: The Psychogeography of Berlin-Kreuzberg in Stephan Geene’s Umsonst > New German Critique
Published: 01 November 2019
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Putting the Dialectic back in Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics

Bo Earle
New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-002
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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Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung: On Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

Ross Wilson
New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 55–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-003
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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Natural History and Aesthetic Truth in Aesthetic Theory

Max Pensky
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989218
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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Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory at Fifty: Introductory Remarks

Peter E. Gordon
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 1–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989190
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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“The Primacy of the Object”: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory and the Return of Form

Eva Geulen
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989204
Published: 01 August 2021
.... Honneth, Dialektik der Freiheit . 12. See Bubner, “Kann Theorie ästhetisch werden?,” as well as Jauß, “Negativität und ästhetische Erfahrung.” 13. See the attempts at mediation in Rebentisch, Aesthetics of Installation Art . 14. Menke, Sovereignty of Art . 15. See...
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Adorno’s Magic Lantern: On Film, Semblance, and Aesthetic Heteronomy

Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989302
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. The following section, “Montage, Discontinuity, and the Aesthetic Fragmentation of Reality,” takes up the possibility to work through...
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On the “Spiritual” in Aesthetic Experience; or, The “Nonfactual in Facticity”

Hent de Vries
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 43–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989232
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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Poetry's Ethics? Theodor W. Adorno and Robert Duncan on Aesthetic Illusion and Sociopolitical Delusion

Robert Kaufman
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 73–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-006
Published: 01 February 2006
...Robert Kaufman New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Poetry’s Ethics? Theodor W. Adorno and Robert Duncan on Aesthetic Illusion and Sociopolitical Delusion Robert Kaufman Odds are that discussions of Adorno and the ethical...
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Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno

Gerhard Richter
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-007
Published: 01 February 2006
...Gerhard Richter New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Aesthetic Theory and Nonpropositional Truth Content in Adorno Gerhard Richter Readers of Theodor W. Adorno’s texts, especially those devoted to philosophi­ cal aesthetics, can hardly fail...
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The “Aesthetic Dignity of Words”: Adorno's Philosophy of Language

Samir Gandesha
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-008
Published: 01 February 2006
...Samir Gandesha New German Critique, Inc. 2006 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...
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