... 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...

... to lifeworldization. Second, Habermas’s defense of differentiation and critique of dedifferentiation, which is predicated on his critique of society as a totality, is discredited by his own argument for the need of (re)integration of complexities of modern society and its necessary normative grounding. Third...

..., Postmodernism, and Steam,” October, no. 100 (2002): 154–74. “Modernism,” Clark writes, “always existed in close, dangerous proximity to the realm of appearances it fed on. . . . Modernism’s motto was the great phrase from the young Marx’s critique of Hegel: Modernists believed it was necessary for any...

... own thought, an intellectual messianism or revolutionary nihilism that frames Kafka's legal world with a radical critique of law. The verdict against modernity that Benjamin finds in Kafka is couched in a series of theologically tinted figures. The obscurity of Kafka's “parables,” the fruit...

...Anne Fuchs As the flip side of acceleration, lateness and slowness disrupt the relentless logic of the modernizing project by critiquing the harnessing of attention that is a hallmark of modernity's high-speed society. This article debates three prominent modes of lateness around 1900...

... of the subject than postmodernist reconstructionism. © 2008 by New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Romantic Modernism: Bach, Furtwängler, and Adorno Mark Berry In very different ways, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Theodor W. Adorno stand as two...

.... The article tests whether Simon Jarvis's critique of Adorno's concept of the modern can explain the difficulty that Adorno seems to encounter in Hamlet , and explores the possibility that Hamlet occupies a basically mythical place in Adorno's thought. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 Theodor W...

... 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...

... can give no account. Reading Austerlitz against Antoine de Rivarol's explicit entwinement of rhetoric and the early modern nation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's exploration of the origin of language, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fictional account of a traumatized aphasic, and Walter Benjamin's critique...

... and strength, the tension between embracing hyperrationality and rejection of modernity, were significant for Benjamin. Supported by Rabinbach's understanding of the appeal of messianic movements and of occupying the position of moral superiority, Benjamin was able to formulate her perspective on the need...

...Robyn Marasco This article considers Walter Benjamin’s portrait of the gambler in light of his critique of bourgeois culture and view of modernity. Benjamin’s gambler reveals a distinctive relationship to time, political and economic history, and the pathos of a class society. To illustrate...

... corresponds to the “modern lie” of totalitarianism, a lie so big, a totality so total that the possibility of argumentative critique appears to have evaporated. At this point, only the linguistic transference of the perfect fiction of totalitarianism into the more graspable language of metaphors seems...

... and ideas equally. The strongest critique of the Humboldt model came from the liberal camp (Dahrendorf) that wanted to modernize the German university by emphasizing the needs of the labor market. Parallels to the more recent American corporate university are briefly discussed at the end. © 2011 by New...

... in the wake of World War I by embracing new technologies of vision, and how a gendered experience of modernity could be envisioned through photomontage. © 2009 by New German Critique, Inc. 2009 My gratitude goes to Matthew Biro, Oliver Botar, Andreas Huyssen, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Anson Rabinbach, Lisa...

... Habermas, Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1985), 138–39. New German Critique 124, Vol. 42, No. 1, February 2015 DOI 10.1215/0094033X-2824285  © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 203 204  Art...

... in the vein of Strauss became pathologized and policed by critics, conductors, and state authorities, as composers lost their freedom of expression and exposure to the public. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 modernism biopolitics imperialism Richard Strauss Salome Sonderweg...

... single word making up its shining name: What is new ? What is German ? What is critique ? In the past half century, during which New German Critique established itself as an icon of German studies, new , the mantra of the modern in general, has metamorphosed into a program for what a sociologist...

... by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 critique of modernity idea of progress eschatology philosophy of history Christianity The “postsecularism debate” has dominated various academic fields for over a decade now, and its core issue, the relation between modernity and religion, is still...

... European modernity reified as “nature.” In light of this imbrication, overcoming the current impasse of critique requires undertaking the kind of deep reflection on critical thought’s relationship with nature found in Adorno’s natural-historical thought, which establishes a critical perspective...

...” of subjective destruction enacted by Adorno's text because they reduce the latter to the symptoms of a loss that defies expression as a matter of principle. © 2008 by New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Putting the Dialectic back in Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics...