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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 103–137.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Kevin S. Amidon In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and early twentieth centuries and the more recent constructivist worldviews typically discrediting biological thinking about humans as intrinsically “essentialist” and “nature” as cultural fabrication. The global ecological crisis, however, and an increasing awareness of the impact of human activity...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 111–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of biological reproduction and Kluge's ongoing exploration of the conditions of cultural reproduction in the Federal Republic of Germany. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Solitary Confinement: Reproduction and
the Law in Kluge’s Abschied von gestern
John...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Andreas Gailus Abstract The literary writings of the young Gottfried Benn are replete with images of anatomical dismemberment and biological decay while pushing the limits of linguistic expression. The article suggests that this confluence of naturalism and avant-garde experimentation is the result...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 47–59.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in the same New York Times article in which Sar-
razin’s views were cited.
Sarrazin’s book belongs to a more or less recent recycling of nineteenth-
century claims about the self-imposed nature of an explicit Jewish biological
(read: racial) “difference.” Often this difference is framed...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
.... Blumenberg, “Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality,” 241–42 . Before turning to how the evolutionary and biological sciences support, but do not supplant, the subdued humanism that arguably motivates Blumenberg’s entire oeuvre, I turn to the concepts “absolutism of reality” and “lifeworld” drawn...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
Published: 01 August 2017
...” in music,
the Bülow bloc coalesced over the explicit need to improve the biological well-
being of the German nation by neutralizing revolution.
There are remarkable parallels between Draeseke and Bülow. Both despised
democracy. Both implored their long-standing enemies—the liberals...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 221–252.
Published: 01 August 2019
... that “the German spirit is in danger,” 23 that it had become abstract and desiccated; its revitalization demanded a return to a prescientific vision of the world (myth) or a rejection of the positivist reductionism of the physical sciences in favor of the holism of the biological sciences, or some combination...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
.... “In the [late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century] understanding of society . . . , culture and
race were essentially synonymous. That is, ‘culture’ signified an expression of biologically inherited
and unchangeable traits, while physical markers, such as skin color, represented merely the visible...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 97–109.
Published: 01 August 2014
...
need for explanation has an affective basis, which cannot be fobbed off onto
any call for empirical modesty. When Sigmund Freud presents a biologically
based affect theory of knowledge by assuming a “drive to knowledge,” this
brings a new angle to the question of how the biological...
Journal Article
A Natural History of Modernity: Bernhard Grzimek and the Globalization of Environmental Kulturkritik
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... 1986 . Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 . New York : Cambridge University Press . Dart Raymond . 1953 . “The Predatory Transition from Ape to Man.” International Anthropological and Linguistic Review 1 : 201 – 17 . Dominick Raymond H...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 83–104.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and biological accounts of anthropogenesis. Yet they chal-
lenge an assumption deeply ingrained in environmentalist discourse and
shared by many ecological posthumanists, that humans can and should form a
coherent conceptualization of ecological embeddedness, which would bring
them into a stable...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 149–181.
Published: 01 February 2009
... “social, national, or racial collective body.”12 Alongside these transla-
tions we fi nd inexact translations that promote misleading interpretations of
the subject. Thus Volkskörper has been interpreted to mean the “biological
body of the German people,”13 or the “body of the nation,”14...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... on the human’s defining ability to transcend, while remaining within, the givenness of biological existence. 25 Philosophical Anthropology’s reconceptualization of the human as a unique kind of animal recentered anthropos on new philosophical and quasi-scientific grounds, warding off the antihumanist...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2023
... it to press, but the drama of natural science in the nineteenth century would vindicate its unrealized ambition: the developmental character of the physical world burst into view in Darwin’s theory of biological evolution, in Lyell’s discovery of deep geological time, and in Laplace’s account of the nebular...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 119–145.
Published: 01 February 2010
... is in fact a product of latent biological inheritances. The earlier genera-
tions have passed their organic modifi cations, along with their inner psychic
processes, on to their descendants. Usually, we cannot retrieve these inheri-
tances by ourselves, for they exist mostly in a latent and vague form...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 125–152.
Published: 01 August 2010
... she defined
as a purely biological being, a creature stripped of all qualities save the very
fact of its being alive.27 The modern laborer is defined not politically or
socially but metabolically, as an organism. The working body is “bare life.”
In fact, Marx had already identified...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 199–224.
Published: 01 February 2012
... political (he never supported
Zionism in any of its various incarnations).4 He explained the distinction
between Germans and Jews in biological terms, though distancing himself
from the pseudoscience of phrenology still in vogue. According to Hermann,
the difference consisted not in the shapes...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 39–72.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Komissarzhevsky Studio in Moscow. 18 Eisenstein and Tretyakov claimed in their 1923 essay “Expressive Movement” that their biomechanical theater training was rooted in a theory of “expressive movement” that divided all gestures into “subconscious, instinctive, the pure biological” reflexes...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 53–72.
Published: 01 November 2016
... trait, a domain- and species-specific skill that develops
autogeneratively. Many commentators argue that this natural capacity played
a decisive role in the origins of music, language, and so on. It is linked to
modes of biological entrainment to external cycles—diurnal patterns, tidal
shifts...
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