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The City as Crime Scene: Walter Benjamin and the Traces of the Detective
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 165–187.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Carlo Salzani New German Critique, Inc. 2007 The City as Crime Scene: Walter Benjamin
and the Traces of the Detective
Carlo Salzani
Theorie des Kriminalromans
In 1930 Benjamin published in the Literaturblatt der...
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The Image of Happiness We Harbor: The Messianic Power of Weakness in Cohen, Benjamin, and Paul
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 57–69.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky In his book The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans , Giorgio Agamben states that the famous hunchbacked dwarf from Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history was none other than Paul. Unlike Agamben, Benjamin was a reader...
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“The Merely Illusory Paradise of Habits”: Salomo Friedländer, Walter Benjamin, and the Grotesque
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 119–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of perceptual standardization and the consequent devaluation of unique aesthetic experience. A comparison of the work of Friedländer, the philosopher-artist, with that of Walter Benjamin, the cultural critic, reveals the limits and the potentials in their attempts to recover and to celebrate the diversity...
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Thinking beyond Secularization: Walter Benjamin, the “Religious Turn,” and the Poetics of Theory
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Daniel Weidner Walter Benjamin has always been both a fascination and an obstacle for intellectual history. He seems to relate to nearly every discourse of early-twentieth-century German history, but in a peculiar, even idiosyncratic, way that makes it difficult to circumscribe his own position...
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Between Benjamin and McLuhan: Vilém Flusser's Media Theory
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 180–207.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of Technical Images , 1985). This work is of crucial importance for all critical theory on media, because Flusser both continues the Marxist tradition of German media theory (in particular of Siegfried Kracauer, Bertolt Brecht, and Walter Benjamin) and upgrades that legacy to contemporary media conditions...
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The “Enormous Freedom of the Breaking Wave”: The Experience of Tradition in Benjamin between the Talmud and Kant
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
Published: 01 August 2020
... at the heart of Walter Benjamin’s early discussion of tradition. His peculiar reference to “Talmudic wit” and to Kant as a tradendum in letters to Scholem, alongside related Jewish sources, and his engagement with Kant in “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy” are used to address these questions. Thus...
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Continuity as Catastrophe: Origins of a Thesis in Walter Benjamin
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 59–82.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Tom Vandeputte In an unpublished fragment from the late 1930s, Walter Benjamin famously calls for a recasting of the idea of catastrophe and its relation to the progression of history. Catastrophe, Benjamin contends, is not to be understood as an exception to the regular course of history; rather...
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Outline of the Psychophysical Educational Problem in the Work of Walter Benjamin
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 103–128.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Tyson E. Lewis This article contributes to the growing literature on Walter Benjamin as an educational philosopher. In particular, it reassesses the claim made by prominent Benjaminian scholars that education can be defined as a form of awakening. To further develop this central educational claim...
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Benjamin and the Archive Today
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 109–117.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Olivia Landry At a contemporary moment of sweeping scholarly interest in and interrogation of the archive, this brief essay returns to Walter Benjamin. Formulating the archive as a fugacious site of ruin and excavation, Benjamin’s approach presents an early counterposition to the modern view...
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Word Creatures: Theodor Haecker and Walter Benjamin between Geschwätz and Pure Language in the Late Weimar Republic
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 23–47.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Helena M. Tomko In October 1931 Walter Benjamin published a “shattering review” of Virgil, Father of the West , by Theodor Haecker, a Catholic cultural critic. Though most critical interest in this review has seen it as a footnote to Benjamin’s intellectual development, the present article argues...
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More Than an Old Love Affair: Media Art and Walter Benjamin
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 163–174.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jessica Nitsche One aspect of Walter Benjamin’s approach that can undoubtedly be described as visionary is the high value he accorded film among the arts. Today time-based, audiovisual media is viewed as an integral and extraordinarily important part of the art system, but when Benjamin’s essay...
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The Inversions of Walter Benjamin’s Anarchism
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Brian Britt Walter Benjamin’s ambivalent engagement with anarchist thought extends beyond well-known works from the early 1920s such as “Critique of Violence” (1921). Contemporary anarchist thinkers, including Gustav Landauer and Georges Sorel, influenced Benjamin and many of his associates...
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It’s All about the Benjamins: Considerations on the Gambler as a Political Type
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Robyn Marasco This article considers Walter Benjamin’s portrait of the gambler in light of his critique of bourgeois culture and view of modernity. Benjamin’s gambler reveals a distinctive relationship to time, political and economic history, and the pathos of a class society. To illustrate...
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A Collector in a Collectivist State: Walter Benjamin’s Russian Toy Collection
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 49–78.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Annie Pfeifer Rather than establishing literary relations with Russian intellectuals or securing the affections of his Latvian love interest, Walter Benjamin spends most of his 1926–27 Soviet sojourn shopping for toys. Benjamin’s habits present an interesting counterpoint to his communist...
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The Distinction between Mythic and Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” from the Perspective of “Goethe's Elective Affinities ”
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 93–120.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Alison Ross This article gives a critical account of the prevailing interpretation of Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” essay. It argues that the position Benjamin's essay defends regarding violence is not cogent within the terms of the essay itself and that the opaque formulations...
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Secret Signals from Another World: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Innervation
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 39–72.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Matthew Charles Abstract Walter Benjamin refers to the “idea of revolution as an innervation of the technical organs of the collective” as one article of his politics. Drawing on some of the debates and tensions generated by the work of Miriam Bratu Hansen, the article analyzes lesser-known...
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Andy Rabinbach as an Inspiration for a Work of Feminist Theory
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 5–8.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jessica Benjamin This article gives a brief account of the influence of Anson Rabinbach on the work of his personal partner, Jessica Benjamin. Benjamin describes the significant points of convergence between the two thinkers' sensibilities in regard to critical theory, left-wing movements...
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Justice for Josef K.: Bringing Myth to an End in Kafka's Trial
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Christopher Conti Walter Benjamin's great essay on Franz Kafka exemplifies his philosophical praxis, which exhumes the prehistoric substrate of modernity to expose the myth of progress in modernity's claim to epochal legitimacy. Benjamin's physiognomic thinking endows Kafka with the features of his...
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The Angels of Accumulated Suffering
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Matthew Noble-Olson Abstract This essay reads Walter Benjamin’s description of Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus through Theodor Adorno’s theorization of art’s contradictory sociality. In this analysis, the object that is illustrative of Benjamin’s imagined angel of history takes on the characteristics...
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At the Door of the Theater: Kafka’s Oklahama Theater and the Nature Theater Movement
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Marit Grøtta Abstract The Nature theater of Oklahama in Der Verschollene is one of Kafka’s most enigmatic inventions, widely known through Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s reading of it as a theater of gestures. This article explores the intertextual archive of Kafka’s novel, bringing...
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