...Michèle Lowrie New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Evidence and Narrative in Mérimée’s Catilinarian Conspiracy Michèle Lowrie Osip Brik, perhaps the keenest of the Russian Formalists, . . . used to say...

...Victoria E. Pagán New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Toward a Model of Conspiracy Theory for Ancient Rome Victoria E. Pagán Although the term conspiracy theory does not appear in my Conspiracy Nar- ratives in Roman History, one reviewer...

...Jakob Tanner New German Critique, Inc. 2008 The Conspiracy of the Invisible Hand: Anonymous Market Mechanisms and Dark Powers Jakob Tanner The Popularity of Conspiracies Conspiracy theories are both simple and highly sophisticated...

...Eva Horn New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Eva Horn To a large extent, the history of conspiracies has been a history of media, not only...

...Timothy Melley New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Brainwashed! Conspiracy Theory and Ideology in the Postwar United States Timothy Melley In September 1950, roughly three months after the start of the Korean War, the Miami News published...

...Peter Knight New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Outrageous Conspiracy Theories: Popular and Offi cial Responses to 9/11 in Germany and the United States Peter Knight Opinion polls conducted in Germany in 2003...

...Stefan Andriopoulos New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Occult Conspiracies: Spirits and Secret Societies in Schiller’s Ghost Seer Stefan Andriopoulos Twenty years after the publication of Immanuel Kant’s “Dreams of a Spirit...

...Eva Horn; Anson Rabinbach New German Critique, Inc. 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction Eva Horn and Anson Rabinbach Conspiracies have haunted the political...

... 2008 New German Critique Number 103 • Winter 2008 Dark Powers: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in History and Literature Issue Editor: Eva Horn Introduction...

... journalist and writer, author of the notorious “document” that pretends to describe the secret plan of a Jewish conspiracy to achieve world domination.1 Golovinskii had, according to Lepekhin, composed the Protocols at the turn of the twentieth century on the orders of Piotr Rachkovskii, head...

... defendants in Leipzig from September to December 1933 was so skillfully managed that it persuaded many observers outside Germany as well as reputable historians until the 1960s that the fi re was the work of a Nazi conspiracy.1 Not until 1959–60, when the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel published a fi...

... various officials entering Winckler’s home using a pass- word (“Parole Babylon suggesting some kind of conspiracy. The surprised Rothe declares abruptly that he then felt himself to be “in a detective film,” a suddenly self-reflexive consideration about the film’s genre status and shift. Rothe...

... and National Socialism. How does Hitler, from his perspective, establish the necessary sharp ideological distinction? The answer can be gleaned from the narrative struc- ture of Mein Kampf. For, immediately following the exploration of the social question, Hitler develops his anti-Semitic conspiracy...

... intrigue to set the scene for the destruction of democracy. In his analysis Rabinbach never wavers from his critical nonideological perspective. The Brown Book ’s conspiracy theory, he writes, “was in many respects the mirror image of the communist conspiracy that Nazi leaders believed in from the outset...

... of the deeper contradictions of the times and crises in which they and their texts had impact. Hannah Arendt, Otto Katz, the Brown Book conspiracy, Albert Speer, Rafael Lemkin, and the Historians’ Debate (Historikerstreit) are just a few examples that come to mind. Central to all of Andy’s writings...

... the Socialist work- ers’ movement. Since several leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Communist Party (KPD) were of Jewish descent, the Nazis denounced the whole movement as a Jewish conspiracy that undermines the nation’s welfare. Pollock adopts at this very point...

... not as a deficit but as an advantage; Jews as a collective are, for example, smarter than other peoples. But it is the very notion of a biological collective, of a “race” defined by biol- ogy and perpetuated by a group strategy (“conspiracy” in nineteenth-century anti-Semitic parlance), that is a problem...

... . Textual Conspiracies: Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Martel James . 2014 . The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . “ Nate Silver to Joe Scarborough: Wanna...

... recourse to the delusion of conspiracy, shortcutting the complexity provided by reality, a fantastic surrogate for the unfathomed effect of the invisible hand, the prevalent metaphor for the impenetrable abstraction. Let me conclude by praising the amenities of moral judgment based on the legacy...

... . Feliciano Hector . 1997 . The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art . New York : Basic . Herrick Feinstein LLP . 2001 . “Heir to Vast Art Collection Recovers Old World Painting Looted by Nazis.” Press release , May 24 . www.herrick.com/siteFiles...