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...James Schmidt New German Critique, Inc. 2007 The Eclipse of Reason and the End of the Frankfurt School in America James Schmidt On May 22, 1947, Leo Lowenthal stepped out of an elevator on the sixth fl oor of the New York offi ce...

... his mind, however, Strauss, a refugee in England and then in America, began to retreat from the ideas that had influenced him during the 1920s and from his own previous attitude toward certain elements of modern civilization. This retreat was not clear, absolute, or complete but complicated, vague...

... to his reflections on American writers and scholars in the final third of his career. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Gershom Scholem Kabbalah Sabbatai Sevi Jewish mysticism America References Abrams Daniel . 2000 . “Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom...

... : Suhrkamp . Zammito Jon . 2004 . “Koselleck's Philosophy of Time(s) and the Practice of History.” History and Theory 43 , no. 3 : 124 – 35 . Koselleck in America Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann In the fall of 1988 Reinhart Koselleck was invited...

...-political language. Mitscherlich was also an effective public intellectual, serving as “the conscience of the nation,” a “gentle repentance-preacher.” Precisely what worked so well in the West German context was, however, anathema in America. This article explores the reasons for the depoliticized version...

...Quinn Slobodian This essay offers a capsule memoir of a part-time Germanist. It recounts the author’s experience of coming of age in the 1990s when it was salad days for All Things German in North America and the sheen of Weimar shone. This decade was followed by the years of the global war...

...- sis. In 1983 Jay became the first person to address the idea of “Adorno in America.” Unfortunately, despite Jay’s warnings to be on guard against anec- dotes and clichés about either Adorno or the German émigré experience, New German Critique 97, Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter 2006 DOI 10.1215...

... and the greatest admiration” for his writings. She was not sure that a piddling fan letter from America would mean much to this faraway genius, but she nevertheless wished to let him know that she, her husband, and a friend “often sit together and allow Nietzsche’s writings to edify [us] at [our] most...

... to as Amerika ) tells the story of a young German emigrant—Karl Rossmann—who tries his luck in America, but ends up living a miserable life at the edge of society. 1 It could be read as a modern picaresque novel about a youngster loafing around in America, or it could be read as a comic anti- Bildungsroman...

... : Lang . Levine Lawrence W. 1988 . Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Piccone Paul . 1977 . “The Changing Function of Critical Theory.” New German Critique , no. 3 : 29 – 37 . ———. 1977...

... 97 Koeppen ends his 1958 travelogue To Russia and Elsewhere with a vision that might equally apply to his 1959 Journey to America: in this fantasy he imagines himself between earth and heaven, a bomber pilot on a routine flight around the world, who, on hearing the code word Zebaoth...

... between Heidegger and Hollywood. If there is such a thing as Heideggerian cinema, it took shape far from Freiburg, in an in-between space such as America. It is the product not so much of autochthony as of hybridity. This does not necessarily make it unique. Indeed, as the eminent cultural...

....” Artforum , April , 194 – 97 , 252–53 . Lotringer Sylvère Cohen Sande . 2001 . French Theory in America . New York : Routledge . Lovink Geert . 2008 . “Whereabouts of German Media Theory.” In Zero Comment: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture , 83 – 98 . New York...

... Buenos Aires, the Caribbean of Aimé Césaire, the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Alfaro Siqueiros. These additions remind us that metropolitan culture was translated, appropriated, and creatively mimicked in colonized and post- colonial countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America...

... by a Jew and published in one of the most important magazines in America— that really hit home. This is a major concern of mine: why is it that we, simply because we do not live in Israel, including even the Germans with their burden of their past, are not allowed to say these things...

... and will not be lost. What you mean is that the practice of the closed society is now present in almost all of Europe and also in America, but not entirely so because in America, society has never been completely closed. It remains an open society even with [Donald] Trump. And I don’t think Britain will lose...

... in America.” In Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords , translated by Pickford Henry W. , 215 – 44 . New York : Columbia University Press . ———. 1998 . “Why Still Philosophy.” In Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords , translated by Pickford Henry W. , 5 – 18 . New...

... in book form as America’s “War on Terror- ism”: In the Wake of 9/11, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Hushion House, 2005). Some in the 9/11 Truth Movement are now interested in documenting the historical development of 9/11 conspiracy theories, voicing sus- picions that later popularizers are plagiarizing early...

...: On July 4, 1776, the thirteen British colonies in North America formally declared their independence from Great Britain. The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in the Pennsylva- nia State House, approved the Declaration of Independence. Its purpose was to 7. Adam Smith...

..., she conceded only that the very diffi culty of transcending religion made its 2. For prior attempts to relate the two see Martin Jay, “The Political Existentialism of Hannah Arendt,” in Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Europe to America (New York: Columbia...