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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 67–111.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Christopher Holman This article reexamines the thought of Herbert Marcuse in the context of contemporary trends in the reception of other leading figures in Frankfurt critical theory, particularly Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. It demonstrates that Marcuse's affirmative theoretical project...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
Published: 01 August 2019
... conception of history and simplistic binaries of good versus evil. Their works stage perpetrator documents in their entirety, without commentary. In this way they participate in the turn away from the “hermeneutics of suspicion” toward an affirmative critical practice. Without an interpretive “safety net...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., as in the sociology of Max Weber and Georg Simmel, but also to contemporary dialectical theology. Systematically, the unfolding of the sacred as a movement in the text opens up a critical perspective on the current turn to religion in theory, which often refers to Benjamin affirmatively yet overlooks the complexity...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 171–189.
Published: 01 August 2008
... a psychopathological or cultural symptom. The class interests that Schreber professes would connect, decades later, to National Socialism; however, in his day, this development was an unwritten page of German history. What has come to be known as the “Schreber case” in fact affirms liberties that, though imperiled...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 21–44.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Marianna Papastephanou Abstract In antiquity Diogenes was asked to identify himself as a citizen. He retorted by affirming that he was a “citizen of the world” and thus implicitly rejecting local citizenship. Ever since, his political identification has become a reference point in most literature...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 133–183.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... An examination of Heartfield's visual production on the ground in the Soviet Union shows how the German monteur responded to the challenge of working in the overwhelmingly affirmative culture of the Five-Year Plans, rather than simply how he was instrumentalized by others in the story of the great undoing...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 109–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
... selected from numerous archival and private collections, discerning a move away from the practice of interior photography as a tool of social affirmation in the late Weimar Republic toward its attestation of absence and loss shortly before emigration from Germany. Employing the Freudian term uncanny in its...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 201–230.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of modern complex societies. Despite Habermas’s intention and arguments, his radical democratic utopia entails lifeworldization—in which the primacy of communicative reason is affirmed in all spheres of action as well as societal integration, which, however, can take a variety of modi operandi ranging from...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 125–146.
Published: 01 August 2021
...-known dictum that art has a “double character,” that it is both autonomous and a “ fait social ” ( AT , 210, 225). The great challenge for readers of Aesthetic Theory today is to reckon with this unresolved dialectic. We need to grasp what its author could have meant when he simultaneously affirmed...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 63–77.
Published: 01 November 2011
... this affective form of communication work? Le Bon identifies
two central communicative techniques that are based on this model of hypno-
sis: affirmation and repetition Crowd( , 141). The leader does not rely on argu-
mentative brilliance to make an assertion but instead uses sheer will: “The
conciser...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 1–39.
Published: 01 February 2021
... vulnerability, blemishes, and fallibility, is the critique of traditional works, which in so many ways are stronger and more successful: It is the critique of success. It is predicated on the recognition of the inadequacy of what appears to be adequate; this is true not only with regard to its affirmative...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 71–99.
Published: 01 August 2023
...). Traditional Marxism affirms totality as a political goal projected into the future; its totalizing vision of society can indeed become totalitarian. By contrast, Marxian value-form theory aligns the term totality with antitotalitarian and strictly critical intentions by defining totality as the primary...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 63–84.
Published: 01 August 2021
... . Sublimation: Inquiries into Theoretical Psychoanalysis . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1988 . Lovejoy Arthur O. , and Boas George . Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1935 . Marcuse Herbert . “ The Affirmative...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2013
... with such a label). So (out of sheer prudence and to protect universalism
itself), I must now hedge my convictions just enough to affirm the incalculable
value of religious moral traditions. They alone provide the West with its finite
source of resistance—much like the body’s limited immunity to bee stings...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2018
... use. —Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime” We are striving to create buildings with a simple, organic body, naked and radiating from an inner law, without falsehood or playfulness, which responds affirmatively to our world of machines, wires and fast vehicles, which expresses its purpose...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 27–50.
Published: 01 August 2024
... transgression as an escape from the legalistic constraints of bourgeois morality. 2 Interposed with citations from Goethe’s oeuvre as well as Lasker-Schüler’s own poems, the play reveals the poetic worldview of Faust and Mephisto as a life-affirming force operating in aesthetic contrast to debauched, drunken...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
...; the method for performing this task, he says, is nihilism. With this, Benjamin performs a double inversion that first denies the claims of profane politics and then affirms their efficacy as a destructive force that somehow “assists” the “coming of the Messianic kingdom.” Is the nihilism Benjamin cites...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
... affirmation: the illusion of subjective control would hide its dependency on society’s structures, giving the illusion that the subject is already liberated. Crucially, film’s dependency on something foreign to the subject gives aesthetic representation to a real situation—one where the social structures push...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 181–209.
Published: 01 February 2021
... forgetting” suggests that not forgetting is an active commitment on behalf of the German nation, deciding to confront its history when instead it could have chosen to forget. This is the raison d’être of a Nietzschean unhistorical subject who knows how to subordinate history such that it affirms rather than...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 81–95.
Published: 01 August 2015
... written
reflections on The Lusty Men: a sense of time specific to cinema. That this
encounter is not only comforting but also disturbing tells us a lot about the
86 Wim Wenders—Film and Photography
photographic attitude that pervades Wenders’s work. Bruno’s homecoming
affirms a view...
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