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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 149–181.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Boaz Neumann While the Nazi politics of the body have been studied at length, the historiographical literature has largely failed to address the role of the Volkskörper , or the German people's body, in the Nazi worldview. As I attempt to explain, it was not the individual bodies of Germans...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 197–228.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of youth and physicality and of visual beauty in the natural and manmade world. Significantly, the magazine’s eclectic visual culture—which also embraced images of male gymnastics and of children—inflected the ideological conflicts that centered on the unclothed body in this period. The article describes...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Erica Carter Abstract Focusing on the interwar writings of the film journalist and theorist Béla Balázs, this article argues for an understanding of Balázs’s film aesthetics as grounded in a popular politics of the body. Balázs understood film as a medium in which experiences of image, sound...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 147–185.
Published: 01 February 2010
...; and to one of the anonymous readers for a probing and constructive review. Black Virgins: Sexuality and the Democratic
Body in Europe
Katrin Sieg
The conditions of imagining and enacting agency, affi liation, and belonging in
German theater have...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of subjectivation and desubjectivation seem especially productive for such a discussion. Read against the backdrop of the aesthetics of the Kantian sublime as a strategy of self-empowerment that sets the independence of the will against the powerlessness of the body, the self-wounding act can also be understood...
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in Death Wish: Suicide and Stereotype in the Gay Discourses of Imperial and Weimar Germany
> New German Critique
Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 2. This image of a skull resting at the bottom of a body of water adorns the bottom of a page, on which a poem concerned with same-sex love appears. Source: Der Eigene 6 (1906): 73.
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 15–47.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Loren Kruger New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Positive Heroes and Abject Bodies in
Heiner Müllerʼs Production Plays
Loren Kruger
Optimistic embellishment and prettifi cation are the worst
enemies...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 31–52.
Published: 01 February 2006
...J. M. Bernstein New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Intact and Fragmented Bodies:
Versions of Ethics “after Auschwitz”
J. M. Bernstein
The Drowned and the Saved
In Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno opens the second section, “Medi...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 63–86.
Published: 01 August 2012
... inhabitants of the terrain vague . Moreover, in both works the female body signifies the transience of place. Thus body and bodily practices in the Heimat idyll convert the illusion of place into the unsettling open-endedness of a desolate, feminized land that carries within it the trace of death, past...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 41–64.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the threatening female body. Warning Shadows thus draws on a common cinematic trope in which a powerful male gaze takes control of a passive female object. It does so, however, in response to a specific historical moment in which that female body represented a fundamentally new and threatening sociocultural...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 207–233.
Published: 01 November 2019
... German bodies? In fact, and here is where their key emphasis lies, there have been some (albeit only a few) noteworthy counterexamples of German genre films that are vibrant and full of life, that plumb depths and probe outer limits, that relish excess and abound with sensuality. Graf and Sievert’s two...
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Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 8. “Beugungsmöglichkeiten des menschlichen Körpers” (“Flexibility of the Human Body”), double-page photograph, from “Kampf gegen die steifen Knochen” (“Battle against Stiff Joints”), UHU , August 1928, 26–27.
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 81–103.
Published: 01 February 2020
... a concept of body and subjectivity that appears as a consequence of an increasingly voracious capitalist modernity while embedding a sense of obstinacy and self-propulsion. Nonetheless, the film’s reliance on transatlantic techno risks excluding the Black musical and social contexts that inspired...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Andrea Gyenge Abstract This article returns to the figure of the mouth in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry . While many scholars treat Lessing’s attention to the statue’s mouth as a sign of his contempt for the body, the article argues that Lessing’s...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 103–128.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., the article turns to Benjamin’s early essay “Outline of the Psychophysical Problem” and in particular, its emphasis on the existential categories of nearness and distance in relation to corporeal substance ( Körper ) and collective body ( Leib ). Subsequently, Benjamin’s reflections on various educational...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
.... The article examines three concepts from Adorno’s philosophy that challenge contemporary cosmopolitanism: his concept of “constellations” offers a different way of relating particular to universal; his claim to solidarity with “tormentable bodies” reimagines moral action informed by this transformed relation...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 51–88.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of the social sciences. Despite the vast literature that scholars have devoted to Weber's concept of charisma, no concerted effort has been made to understand its transatlantic history in the decades after his death. A growing body of recent scholarly work has extended the modern history of concepts...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 89–128.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and Gestalt theory; and the rise of phenomenology. It argues that German-educated Russian émigrés were central to transforming French thought, in particular a new kind of phenomenological and antifoundational realism and a new understanding of the body...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 105–133.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Gerard Passannante This essay locates in Max Weber’s body of work a theory of recognition in compulsion. With particular attention to Weber’s engagement with pre- and early modern sources, the essay argues that this theory illuminates his project of historical interpretation. For Weber, compulsion...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... as with Balázs's fellow Marxist Walter Benjamin, this article outlines key aspects of both right-wing and left-wing physiognomics. While Balázs did share with reactionary physiognomists the problematic idealist tendency to view the body as materialized soul, his views on physiognomy evaded racial essentialism...
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