... Blind Mice” as endemic of a global epidemic: a positivistic reductionism found not only in philosophy and music but also in culture and society at large. Three Blind Mice: Goodman, McLuhan, and Adorno on the Art of Music and Listening in the Age of Global Transmission...

... of the public sphere, which calls into question the very distinction between private and public. This article presents these theories in their different scopes, points to their blind spot concerning the blurring of the private-public distinction, and offers some normative desiderata for a future public sphere...

... of hegemonic knowledge, where the elite may follow as insiders the creative process of ideology construction. The inner circle of Hitler's supporters is thus less taken by a blind fanaticism than initiated into the enjoyment of the performative character of verbal violence. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc...

...Barbara N. Nagel The attention that the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser pays to domestic violence can be regarded as exceptional. So why does child abuse still remain a blind spot in the scholarship on Walser? This article discerns techniques that Walser uses to render family violence...

... in the United States as Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary, ed. Melissa Müller, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Arcade, 2004). Axel Bangert  167 Winkel: Hitlers Sekretärin (Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, 2002), by André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer...

.... These acts of prosthetic witnessing foreground the blind spots of memory—a blindness induced partly by and in response to normative political and historical discursive frameworks. Further, the text performs the dangers of an overproximity to a contaminated past that result in the near collapse...

.... In other words, the very act of turning and returning, in Thalheim’s film, seems to por- tend the unsettling of rote readings and afford new insights into the meaning of the Holocaust for the present. Blind Spots As I noted earlier, Thalheim begins And Along Come Tourists with a left turn away...

... and the future are with us . . . without being blind toward our own narrowness and errors.”9 Yet by 1957 I had reached a—still qualified—point of no return, one where I perceived a kind of symmetry of evil. I wrote then that there was “deception on both sides and everywhere. Everywhere it is a matter...

... that, in its embrace of instrumental functionality, it has regressed to nature—that is, to the blind and reactionary instincts that define the most violent aspects of the natural environment. Instead of becoming sovereign, the subject has lost her greatest power, freedom—which arrives only with the nonviolent...

... empty; a political decision without a strategy remains blind. Whenever one thing after another is missing, analysis, too, can play fast and loose, and we no longer need any “exertion of the concept.” 1 But doing without that exertion is made all the easier when we’ve thrown our doubts overboard...

..., the Sturmabteilung (SA), and the socialist equivalent, the Reichs- banner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, remained legal. These are examples of an asym- metrical justice system in the Weimar Republic that tended to punish the radical Left while often turning a blind eye to infractions of the radical Right. In 1929...

..., as Mephistopheles predicts they surely will one day (5.11544–50).9 8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Part Two (1832), trans. David Luke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). 9. On the ecological insight—and blindness—of Faust: Part Two see Kate Rigby, “Freeing the Phenomena: Goethean Science...

... of the break between the work and all signifieds.”15 Finally, in Ästhetische Theorie, exactly the same formulation appears again, once more in quotation marks, and now in the context of what Adorno calls “a subjective paradox of art,” which is “to produce the blind (i.e., expres- sion) through...

..., who has forged the crew into a unit that, as he puts it, obeys his will mechani- cally (525), is struck blind: “I grow blind, hands! . . . Is’t night (533). On the Pequod “all the seamen now hung inactive.” They observe their captain’s dis- integration, as well as that of their hunting boats...

... started to disappear while working beneath the city. Search teams discovered con- gregations of fully grown alligators in the waste water of the sewers. They were albino, blind and well fed.9 The ground, the surface of which is New York City, is defi ned by the cityʼs sewage...

... precisely what Adorno suggests an article should do, namely, confront—“disrupt”8 and “interrupt,”9 not capture or catch out— thinkers and their thoughts “with the truth that each one intends even if it does not want to intend it”: recognition of their blind spot.10 The question I would like to pose...

... are not eternally fixed but are shifting on their own axes and changing at every moment under the impact of contingent and distantly determined realities that take place in what Bloch called the “blind spot of the present.”18 Bloch underpins this positive Marxist approach with an Aristotelian one...

... rhetorical unity of orgé/lý pe (ira/tristitia) which at least in its mood holds on to what one knows to be lost.20 Luhmann is more optimistic and uses the cybernetic device of the “blind spot” to imagine a concatenation of observers observing the blind spot of other observers, each...

... . “ Über Negativität und Autonomie der Kunst: Die Aktualität von Adornos Ästhetik und blinde Flecken seiner Musikphilosophie .” In Honneth , Dialektik der Freiheit , 237 – 78 . Wesche Tilo . Adorno: Eine philosophische Einführung . Ditzingen : Reclam , 2018 . 33. Francis Herbert...

... with questions of one’s own orientation, one needs to contend with inevitable occlusions and blind spots. The 150th issue of New German Critique arrives almost exactly fifty years after the journal’s first publication in the early months of 1974. 1 For this commemorative number, the editorial board...