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...Martin Jay New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Taking On the Stigma of Inauthenticity: Adorno’s Critique of Genuineness Martin Jay To know inauthenticity is not the same as to be authentic...

... observational to a theoretical stance: according to Arendt, we can understand the historical implications of the Nazi genocide only if we engage in the crisscrossing of history and thought. New German Critique, Inc. 2009 The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical Critique of Philosophy: Eichmann...

... adversaries more clearly provides the chance to see her conceptual distinctions as interventions into concurrent attempts to revise Marxian political economy in the latter half of the twentieth century. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 Marxism labor automation the human condition...

...George W. Shea, IV Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Largely overshadowed by the renown of his colleagues Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer’s contributions to the Frankfurt School are often downplayed as those of the mere director...

...Mathura Umachandran Birthdays are good moments for Janus-faced self-reflection: where have we been and where might we go? This essay undertakes such a reflective enterprise from the outsider perspective of a scholar trained in classics. It apprises a critique of German studies not in the mode...

...Yuliya Komska Frequently, to be an immigrant is to be submerged in one’s new physical and institutional settings, to be inside without feeling like an insider. The position is at odds with critique, which is traditionally predicated on distance. This article attempts to undo the contradiction...

... Department in Frankfurt and Lumumba-Zapata College in San Diego. It first recovers a multidimensional critique of the role of the postwar university in advancing capital accumulation and entrenching racial segregation—twinned processes that students recognized as posing an existential threat to the exercise...

...Johannes Wankhammer This article revisits Adorno’s concept of “natural history” to propose an alternative to the exhausted paradigm of denaturalizing critique. As Jonathan Crary’s work on the ruination of sleep illustrates, the reflex to denounce natural limits as ideological constructs falls short...

... the Antideutsche movement liquidated its critical edge around the turn of the century. Bruhn drew on German leftist national self-hatred from the nineteenth century to the 1970s New Left, Moishe Postone’s theory of structural anti-Semitism from the 1970s, and the Frankfurt School’s critique of “state capitalism...

...-Holocaust revival in the field of cultural history but also of a continuing disjunction between the contexts of European critical theory and history and the anomalies of its reception in American popular culture. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Toward an Expansion of the Critique...

...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...

... of modern sociability. This article argues that the sociological critique of modern therapeutic culture deploys a specific ethos of distance, which is shown through the work of Richard Sennett and Frank Furedi. Sennett and Furedi reactualize intellectual debates around the regulation of emotional exposure...

...André Krebber Abstract This article explores Theodor W. Adorno’s recovery of natural beauty in Aesthetic Theory against the background of current debates in environmental aesthetics and evinces the relationship of his reading of natural beauty to his critique of the domination of nature. From...

... journal Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung ( AIZ ) insistently suppress the seams and ruptures of their manufacture, instead offering up pictorially sutured photomontages that propagate fictions of visual wholeness. They do so to issue an ideological critique from a leftist perspective, staging our illusory...

.... The article then clarifies how Adorno positions himself in regard to the conception and critique of language, where he stakes out the position from which he observes, and how he links the critique of society and language, driven by his initial intuition to formulate “philosophy in an authoritative sense...

... who advocate Muslim assimilation or exclusion to remedy women's oppression. The playwrights critique the cultural authority of these brokers, which they derive from self-referential, autobiographical speech, and their ethical dilemma of misrepresenting the women for whom they purport to speak. Black...

... of Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza's critique of religion were two modern targets of Strauss's criticism. Hobbes was identified as the father of modern civilization who broke violently with the tradition of philosophy and established the foundations of liberalism. As Nazism took hold and Germany faded from...

... Rosa’s critique of social acceleration and argues that this critique lacks a firm normative basis. This basis is required, however, for one to claim why certain processes of social acceleration are wrong. It is shown that Rosa’s analyses of acceleration contain two suggestions for such a basis: autonomy...

...Kylie Gilchrist Abstract This article investigates a problem in Theodor W. Adorno’s thought: how can Adorno critique advanced capitalist societies for their dehumanizing tendencies while also refusing the possibility of defining the human? Motivating this inquiry is a renewed investigation...

...Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente Abstract Rejecting a reading of Theodor W. Adorno as a critic of the culture industry who could not conceive of film’s critical potential, many commentators have argued that for Adorno, film can become autonomous and thus a medium for social critique. This article...