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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 (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 163–183.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Florian Fuchs This article develops Hans Blumenberg’s intensifying interest in fables during the 1970s and 1980s and argues that it marked his decisive turn away from academic philosophy toward a rethinking of storytelling as a philosophical practice. Blumenberg’s simultaneous writings on anecdotes...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
...,” considerations of historical events, disquisitions on fairy tales and legends, anecdotes about their sources of inspiration such as Immanuel Kant or Marx, studies of domestic labor, the history of prices or the politics of German Romantics along with technical illustrations or illustrations drawn from...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 105–121.
Published: 01 November 2017
... : University of Minnesota Press . Eribon Didier . 1991 . Michel Foucault , translated by Wing Betsy . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Fleming Paul . 2011 . “The Perfect Story: Anecdote and Exemplarity in Linnaeus and Blumenberg.” Thesis 11 104 , no. 3 : 72 – 86...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 141–163.
Published: 01 November 2021
... intimate sense of connection. 3 Readers familiar with his previous four novels—recognized with prestigious literary prizes like the Adelbert von Chamisso, Hilde Domin, Nelly Sachs, and others—will remember some of the anecdotes prefacing grammatical problems in German for Everyone : they document his...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 1–9.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Fuchs argues in “Decoding Aesop: Blumenberg’s Fabulistic Turn.” In reading anecdotes and fables from the late work, a “fabulatory philosophy” emerges that surpasses even Blumenberg’s early opposition to the systematization and full terminologization of philosophy. Writing an alternative genealogy...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 179–210.
Published: 01 February 2023
... interaction it traces ends with the silent acknowledgment of a methodological and more broadly intellectual distance. 42 Over the years the distance between these two approaches to the history and meaning of Jewish mysticism became increasingly visible. 43 An anecdote recounted by one of Heschel’s...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 91–112.
Published: 01 November 2016
... experiential engagement with American
culture. David Jenemann’s Adorno in America and Detlev Claussen’s Theodor
W. Adorno: One Last Genius both paint detailed portraits of the American years,
rich with anecdotes about Adorno’s access to culture industry insiders, members
of the Rockefeller Foundation...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the encounter—whether
missed or successful—with his writings on both sides of the Atlantic.
Networks and Name Recognition: Transatlantic Reception
Scholars for a long time relied on a largely anecdotal account of Kracauer not
only as anonymous but also as a somewhat sad, isolated figure cut off from...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 81–103.
Published: 01 February 2020
... afterward, concern the genius of the automatized system of slaughter and the anecdote of the worker Luckerniddle, who fell into the machine and was turned into bacon. 27 Unlike the play, the film does not deal with economic crisis or social struggle but ironizes the perfection of the system, so good...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 29–34.
Published: 01 August 2014
... or not at best interesting on an anecdotal level. Much more theoretically
productive is the question of how Adorno’s aesthetic analysis works in the areas
of literature and music, and what other applications might be possible. For Mir-
iam and our generation of critical theorists, an important impetus...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 143–164.
Published: 01 November 2008
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repudiated. Hans Jonas recounts a lovely anecdote to this effect: the deep regret
Strauss felt on Yom Kippur for walking with Jonas through Hyde Park, rather
than confess his sins and express remorse at the synagogue. As Jonas put it,
Strauss “suffered” the spiritual imperative to become an atheist...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., “natural.” Adorno then relates an anecdote that
underscores this observation:
I once heard the story of a woman who, after attending a performance of
the dramatization of The Diary of Anne Frank, said in a shaken voice:
“Yes, but really, at least that girl ought to have been...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
... a work of
mourning. In this context, Liu defends New Historicism’s investment in the
anecdote as a form of “random access. If New Historicism is a form of rela-
tional database, then the anecdote is its query.” Moreover, if “New Historicism
is the intuition simultaneously of random access...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 27–49.
Published: 01 February 2008
... theory in ancient Rome is best exemplifi ed by the
many anecdotes of emperors suspecting plots against themselves. In the biog-
raphies of the Roman emperors collected under the title Historia Augusta,
36. Finley, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, 108.
37. Iiro Kajanto examines the speech...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 123–144.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., such as myth and the telling of
anecdotes, they allow us to orient ourselves without the hardwired adaptive
responses of other species, who need no cultural supplement to compensate for
their lack of instinctual guidance.
Because Blumenberg was a critic of the claim made by Karl Löwith,
Carl...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 2012
... with a host of local United Nations headquarters and other organizations.
In both cases, the postdisaster institutional void made room for rape and loot-
ing but also for spontaneous acts of altruism.
Is this analogy between a fictional and a factual earthquake in America
merely anecdotal? What...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 185–192.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and another to expropriate the city’s biggest landlord. 5 But, anecdotally, a divide had opened up between those older US-based academics who got in early and secured their summertime and sabbatical flats and those who came after, left to watch the rents leave them behind. This particular utopia started...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 39–60.
Published: 01 November 2017
... bear out anecdotal evidence and give some support to
preconceived notions of American cultural insularity. But they tell us little about
books sold, except by inference: American publishers seem less optimistic than
their German counterparts about the market prospects for translated literature...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 1–8.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... To see the danger, one has to scratch
away at the surface.
Adorno’s emphasis on collective response is one way to interpret his
famous anecdote about a German woman who emerges from a stage produc-
tion of The Diary of Anne Frank and concludes, “Yes, but that girl at least
should have...
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