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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 3. Agesander, Athenedorors, and Polydorus (of Rhodes), Laocoön and His Sons , also known as the Laocoön Group . Marble, copy after a Hellenistic original from ca. 200 BC. Found in the Baths of Trajan, 1506. Vatican Museum, Museo Pio-Clementino. Photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen. More
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
... call, but one of anger and resentment. Juxtaposing these two calls for memory shows that, against every intuition, the immediate postwar period, defined by unprecedented human loss and physical devastation, was also a moment of energy and hope, while the height of the Wirtschaftswunder (economic...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Justin Neville Kaushall Abstract This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s concept of disinterested contemplation is inadequate because it represses the historical suffering of nature, and thus the aesthetic object’s materiality. It also argues that Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of natural beauty...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Kylie Gilchrist Abstract This article investigates a problem in Theodor W. Adorno’s thought: how can Adorno critique advanced capitalist societies for their dehumanizing tendencies while also refusing the possibility of defining the human? Motivating this inquiry is a renewed investigation...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the relation between capitalism and religion in question. Benjamin's thought not only is essentially related to a specific form of expression but also opens up new contexts. In terms of intellectual history, it relates Benjamin to the broad discourse on the relation between religion and (modern) culture...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
... life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely consider these new discourses on space, while studies on literary representations of space seldom include approaches to Heimat...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 79–93.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Armin Schäfer In twentieth-century German literature, Alfred Döblin's novel The Three Leaps of Wang Lun is an outstanding example not only of the invention of a charismatic leader but also of an attempt to analyze those aspects of charisma that Max Weber did not want to touch on. Döblin saw...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 103–137.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and ambitions also generated resistance from other social scientists. The Berlin ethnologist Richard Thurnwald, along with his student and colleague Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, came into direct conflict with Horkheimer—and with each other—over the significance of biology for social research. This conflict...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 5–26.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a characteristically dialectical response to nominalism, applauding its subversion of categorical reifications, but alarmed by its indiscriminate leveling of the distinction between concept and object, which could also efface the distinction between works of art and everyday objects. In musical terms, he appreciated...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 139–154.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of philosophical interpretation. It argues that interpretation is a practice that also involves the making of something, as poesis, and that Adorno's ideal for this is interpretation as musical performance. Through a rereading of the concepts of riddle-character ( Rätselcharakter ), interpretation ( Deutung...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 91–107.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Susannah Heschel From the 1830s to the 1930s Jewish scholars came to dominate Islamic studies in Europe, particularly Germany, Hungary, and France, concentrating primarily on the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad but also painting a broad canvas describing the nature of Islam as a religion...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 197–215.
Published: 01 February 2020
... characters and positions soulscapes and landscapes in close connection to each other. It argues that the characters’ traumatic experiences not only are inscribed as bodily memories but also become part of their language. Rather than engage with the wider field of trauma theories, this article focuses...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 105–140.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Peter J. Schwartz Abstract The final, unfinished project of the Hamburg art historian and Kulturwissenschaftler Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929)—the so-called Mnemosyne image atlas ( Bilderatlas )—has recently drawn increased attention not only from scholars but also from artists and museum curators...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 69–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... relationship between the struggles of Weimar culture and the effort to construct German socialism amid the ruins of the Nazi state. The article also demonstrates that there are more structural similarities between postwar East and West German culture than is commonly believed, as both cultures appealed...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 169–195.
Published: 01 November 2015
... claimed that democratic states had to aggressively curb the rights of their enemies and preemptively invade and destroy nondemocratic regimes. Surprisingly, and unrecognized by historians, Loewenstein was also a key figure in the popularization of human rights in the 1940s. He was one of the architects...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 133–183.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... The essay provides a new narrative that moves beyond the polarity of realism and constructivism that has shaped our understanding of their work and relationship and has also tended to squeeze out the contradictions of the visual objects to which it supposedly pertains, rendering them mere epiphenomena...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 197–228.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of youth and physicality and of visual beauty in the natural and manmade world. Significantly, the magazine’s eclectic visual culture—which also embraced images of male gymnastics and of children—inflected the ideological conflicts that centered on the unclothed body in this period. The article describes...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
Published: 01 November 2019
... images” home in on the fleeting relation of part to whole, revealing the difficulty of understanding large concepts such as the West or the human species through such supposedly objective images. This article also discusses the connection between Geyrhalter’s photographic mode and sophisticated...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 57–80.
Published: 01 February 2020
... to continue developing but also revise practices he first engaged in other media. The so-called white-cube exhibition space presents Kluge’s earlier works in terms of remediation and provides him with an opportunity to employ and reconceptualize his approach to montage techniques and reception aesthetics...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
... with Oskar Negt, this article analyzes not only various forms of questions posed in these genres but also the epistemological dimension of questioning. This perspective reveals how a Marxian model of writing becomes the point of departure for Kluge’s work on artistic method. It demonstrates that his...
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