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Taking On the Stigma of Inauthenticity: Adorno's Critique of Genuineness

Martin Jay
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 15–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2005-003
Published: 01 February 2006
...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...
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The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt's Philosophical Critique of Philosophy: Eichmann in Jerusalem

Michael Mack
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-020
Published: 01 February 2009
... 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...
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Hannah Arendt’s Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy

Mimi Howard
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 45–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288125
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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...
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Postmetaphysical Conundrums: The Problematic Return to Metaphysics in Horkheimer’s Critique of Instrumental Reason

George W. Shea, IV
New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9305498
Published: 01 November 2021
...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...
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Toward an Expansion of the Critique of the Mahler Revival

Adam J. Sacks
New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 113–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1812622
Published: 01 August 2013
...-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...
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The Distinction between Mythic and Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” from the Perspective of “Goethe's Elective Affinities ”

Alison Ross
New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 93–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2398642
Published: 01 February 2014
...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...
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Traces of the Other: Adorno on Natural Beauty

André Krebber
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 169–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288181
Published: 01 August 2020
...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...
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Manufacturing Discontent: John Heartfield's Mass Medium

Sabine Kriebel
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 53–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-002
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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Dismantling the Subject: Concepts of the Individual in the Weimar Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Gottfried Benn

Harry T. Craver
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 1–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329175
Published: 01 February 2016
... how the critique of individualism could be mobilized for opposed political agendas. For Kracauer, this meant a redefined subjectivity that would contribute to social critique; for Benn, an acquiescence to National Socialism, which he saw as a form of historical fate. Dismantling the Subject: Concepts...
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Cloudcuckooland: Adorno's Musical Utopianism

Fred Rush
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 73–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3625373
Published: 01 November 2016
...Fred Rush Theodor W. Adorno has a complex attitude toward utopian thought. Although he views as destructive and dangerous fascist and “vulgar” Marxist strands of utopianism and has a subtle diagnostic critique of their attractions and deficiencies, he finds the proper use of utopian imagination...
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Phenomenology, Physiognomy, and the “Radio Voice”

Brian Kane
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 91–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3625385
Published: 01 November 2016
... earlier concerns with a critique of Husserlian phenomenology and an analysis of Wagnerian phantasmagoria. I argue that Adorno's method for radio research is phenomenological, modified to accommodate dialectics. This modified phenomenology, renamed “physiognomy,” aims to expose phantasmagoria...
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Mimetic Rationality: Adorno's Project of a Language of Philosophy

Harro Müller
New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 85–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-012
Published: 01 November 2009
.... 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...
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Black Virgins : Sexuality and the Democratic Body in Europe

Katrin Sieg
New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 147–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-021
Published: 01 February 2010
... 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...
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Just before the “Straussians”: The Development of Leo Strauss's Political Thought from the Weimar Republic to America

Adi Armon
New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 173–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-019
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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Reification and the Duty to Work Through the Past: On Critical Theory and Temporality

Mathijs Peters
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288153
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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...
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We Cannot Say What the Human Is: The Problem of Anthropology in Adorno’s Philosophy of Art

Kylie Gilchrist
New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8732159
Published: 01 February 2021
...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...
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Adorno’s Magic Lantern: On Film, Semblance, and Aesthetic Heteronomy

Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989302
Published: 01 August 2021
...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...
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Intermittent Legitimacy: Hans Blumenberg and Artificial Intelligence

Leif Weatherby
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 11–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9439601
Published: 01 February 2022
... make a false assumption about intelligence or consciousness. This article argues that Blumenberg’s brush with digital systems is crucial in updating our own critique of AI as it proliferates in a new, dynamic form today. Drawing on and shifting the account of technology in the phenomenological...
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Reading Kafka, Writing Vita : The Trials of the Kafka Scholar Eduard Goldstücker

Veronika Tuckerová
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 129–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2824249
Published: 01 February 2015
... and therefore free of external political pressures, reveals that, rather than a means for a political critique of communism in general or Goldstücker's own involvement with communism, Kafka became a tool for self-evasion in Goldstücker's writing. This interpretation goes against the accepted Western reception...
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Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice

Susanne Knittel
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546234
Published: 01 August 2019
...,” the audience must engage with the reenacted event on its own terms, affirmatively, and thus risk the security of their preconceived positions. Only then can the repetition engender difference. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 perpetrators affirmation critique Milo Rau Romuald...
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