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in Trophy Hunter: Ulrich Seidl’s Portraits and Safari > New German Critique
Published: 01 November 2019
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Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings?

Gertrud Koch
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 97–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680792
Published: 01 August 2014
...Gertrud Koch The article discusses the notion of “experiment” and relates it—via Immanuel Kant's concept of liveliness, which is a central topos of aesthetic experience—to “animation” in film, insofar as both refer to “life sciences.” Drawing on the example of Sergei Eisenstein's poetics...
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Kafka’s Animations: Trick Films, Narrative, Reification

Brook Henkel
New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6684153
Published: 01 August 2018
...Brook Henkel Abstract Around 1910 trick films by Edwin S. Porter, Émile Cohl, and others fascinated writers and critics by bringing objects to life and upending the dominant roles of human actors found in drama and literature. The animated objects and thing-like humans in Franz Kafka’s writings...
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The Ethics of Animals in Adorno and Kafka

Christina Gerhardt
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 159–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-009
Published: 01 February 2006
...Christina Gerhardt New German Critique, Inc. 2006 The Ethics of Animals in Adorno and Kafka Christina Gerhardt If animals did not exist, the nature of man...
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A “Political Struwwelpeter”? John Heartfield's Early Film Animation and the Crisis of Photographic Representation

Andrés Mario Zervigón
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-001
Published: 01 August 2009
... propaganda films for the German High Command. However, he shunned live-action film sequences of the war, which were subject to heavy censorship, and instead drew on American-style cinematic animation to convey a subversive message about the war's violence and horror. Although he later became famous for his...
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The Flight of the Gods: A Comparative Study of Martin Heidegger and Oskar Goldberg

Bruce Rosenstock
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 221–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546262
Published: 01 August 2019
... the relationship between the people’s god and the earth. Both thinkers also reject the Darwinian concept of the “state as organism” in the new academic study of human geography known as Geopolitik . Both thinkers embrace a neovitalist concept of animal life as it was developed in the work of Jakob von Uexküll...
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The Ends of (German) Film Criticism: On Recurring Doomsday Scenarios and the New Algorithmic Culture

Mattias Frey
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 45–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607577
Published: 01 November 2020
... slipping benchmarks and declining quality, the fragmentation of the filmgoing public into niche markets, and above all the anxiety about the authority of the critic to definitively speak for and interpret culture to a receptive audience have animated international film criticism since its origins...
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A Natural History of Modernity: Bernhard Grzimek and the Globalization of Environmental Kulturkritik

Thomas Lekan
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511871
Published: 01 August 2016
...Thomas Lekan This article explores the doomsday vision of humans and other animals found in the nonfiction books, documentary films, and autobiography of former Frankfurt Zoological Garden director and television star Bernhard Grzimek. Focusing on his career transition in the 1940s and 1950s from...
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Engels after Frankfurt: Nature and Enlightenment in Critical Theory

Matt Shafer
New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10140705
Published: 01 February 2023
... such pessimism once animated. mshafer@fiu.edu Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 ecology materialism Marxism philosophy of science positivism The Frankfurt School lived first among dinosaurs. Before the Institute for Social Research had a building of its own, its members...
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Intact and Fragmented Bodies: Versions of Ethics “after Auschwitz”

J. M. Bernstein
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 31–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-004
Published: 01 February 2006
... toward a deeper respect for our animality, our living being, nowhere in Negative Dialectics does he provide the positive terms for such respect; at most, we get a utopian gesture: “But what hope clings to, as in 2. J. M. Bernstein, Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (New York: Cambridge...
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The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction

Heather I. Sullivan, Bernhard F. Malkmus
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511835
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Heidegger, indebted to Max Scheler, categorizes all living things in terms of how they relate to their environs: “Because plants and animals are lodged in their respective environments but are never placed freely in the clearing of Being which alone is ‘world,’ they lack language. But in being...
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Trophy Hunter: Ulrich Seidl’s Portraits and Safari

Brad Prager
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 157–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727469
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figure 4. A woman positioned among souvenir animal heads in Safari . Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion. ...
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The Poetic Power of Theory

Alexander Kluge, Leslie A. Adelson
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908350
Published: 01 February 2020
... finds its way. “Fantasy is an animal in flight.” Intelligence derives from this, stems from caution, from self-defense; it is oriented to ways out, emergency exits, and originally to flight. These powers become engaged as motors of progress—in an attitude of self-consciousness, Enlightenment, and avant...
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The Metamorphic Temporality of Natural Beauty: Adorno’s Negation of Kantian Disinterested Contemplation

Justin Neville Kaushall
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288167
Published: 01 August 2020
... : Continuum , 2006 . Matthews Patricia M. “ Kant’s Sublime: A Form of Pure Aesthetic Reflective Judgment .” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 , no. 2 ( 1996 ): 165 – 80 . Mendieta Eduardo . “ Animal Is to Kantianism as Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno’s Bestiary .” In Critical...
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Thought Woken by Memory: Adorno's Circuitous Path to Utopia

S. D. Chrostowska
New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 93–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1812586
Published: 01 February 2013
.... Theodor W. Adorno, “Resignation,” in Critical Models, trans. Henry W. Pickford (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 293. 7. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 81. 8. See his Utopiques II: L’homme est un animal utopique (Arles: Éditions de la Nuit, 2010). 9. Lücken is the title of the aphorism...
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Wounded Modernism: Adorno on Wagner

Peter E. Gordon
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3625421
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the body. But as Horkheimer and Adorno explained, this masochism is the introver- sion of an original sacrifice that once made of the animal a symbolic offering to God. As the primal act of substitution, this sacrifice inaugurates the reign of logical exchange that will eventually extinguish...
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Reification and the Duty to Work Through the Past: On Critical Theory and Temporality

Mathijs Peters
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288153
Published: 01 August 2020
...-telling animal. He is not essentially, but becomes through his history, a teller of stories that aspire to truth. But the key question for men is not about their own authorship; I can only answer the question “What am I to do?” if I can answer the prior question “Of what story or stories do I find myself...
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Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Blumenberg and the Need for Philosophical Anthropology

Vida Pavesich
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9439643
Published: 01 February 2022
... indirectly by drawing on names and meanings from available lifeworldly inventories. Even “action” has a metaphorical structure, because it presupposes mediation of impulse. One action can be substituted for another, such as animal sacrifice for human sacrifice, or symbolic behavior for reactive behavior...
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Introduction

New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 1–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-008
Published: 01 August 2009
... High Command deliberately shuns live-action fi lm sequences of the war, which were subject to heavy censorship, and instead draws on American-style cinematic animation to get across a sub- versive message about the violence and horror of the war. He avoided the photographic basis of fi lm, which...
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Between the Tyranny of Opinion and the Despotism of Rational Truth: Arendt on Facts and Acting in Concert

James Phillips
New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 97–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2077717
Published: 01 August 2013
...- entiate themselves from animals, becomes for Arendt, by contrast, a proof of human freedom and exceptionalism. In the Socratic dialogues δo´ ξα is a con- straining condition rather than the creation of a free agent (as the cognate i˜ν occurs in ancient Greek customarily as an impersonal verb...
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