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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and enlightenment, and overlooks the significant role played by Odysseus’s cunning in the development of reason. In addressing these problems, it becomes apparent that cunning is a form of mimetic intelligence and bears its own form of dialectic, which has implications for the understanding of Adorno’s later works...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the magician’s apprentice has created and can no longer stop is standing still. No cunning can circumvent, dupe, avoid, or otherwise deactivate this core, out of which the wise man takes action. This core is the attitudinal core of every reliable theorist. A striking report in the Russian tradition...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
...; that is, it not only offers a specifi c explanation for a certain kind of experience but also refl ects, in this very specifi city, a general explana- tory norm or criterion of what may count as valid explanation. Thus the Odys- sey not only offers Odysseus’s cunning to explain a certain set of events but also...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Wesche’s analysis of the long-suspect “rescue of semblance [ Schein ]” in Adorno is equally coherent: “Art is the ‘rescue of semblance’ in the sense of the cunning, the purposiveness with which aesthetic form allows art to appear as if it ‘has no purpose’” ( WA , 165). According to Wesche, the artwork’s...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 179–190.
Published: 01 February 2006
... death as though he had run right through it, that he can suddenly come to his senses after the shot, that there remains breath enough to sing a song, none of this can be contrived through the cunning of mimesis or reason. Playing possum is not simply pre­ arranged. The “cunning,” if there is any...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 155–179.
Published: 01 February 2018
... with another opportunity to overpower nature with cunning. In a similarly mixed (or dialectical) manner, the myth of Helen of Troy advances the story of the development of Western civilization as a whole. “Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris / Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2013
... group of the wayward, in the end he returns to Sinai to intercede with God on behalf of the Israelites: “Moses had a long struggle with Him . . . and . . . had to use great persuasive powers and shrewd appeal to keep God from declaring the bond broken” (TL, 60). Moses is depicted as the cun...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 153–180.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of heroes (Thomas Carlyle) and race (Arthur de Gobineau) as well as on a transformation of language, which he describes as the new techniques of myth making. “Fabricated by skillful and cunning artisans,” 22 these artificial myths prove especially effective in moments of political crisis. Despite his...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 25–32.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Vernunft”—the cunning of reason—while for Marx, and not only for him, elu- sive societal realities tended to arise, as he put it, “behind the back” of the human agents. All in all, such and further metaphors for picturing the societal abstract are understood as intellectual endeavors to install some...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 2020
... twentieth century, Kluge’s Chicago im Zeitraffer ( Chicago in Time Lapse ). Both borrowing and departing from László Moholy-Nagy’s approach to the mobility of urban vision in the early twentieth century and Bertolt Brecht’s understanding of a “‘cunning’” capitalist system, Kluge retools time-lapse...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and Bacon’s “In Praise of Human Knowledge.” The biblical Creation story is often read as a tale about the need to preserve, rather than dominate, God’s Creation, the natural world. The story of Odysseus was a tale not only of cunning and mastery of nature but of heroism against daunting 8...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
Published: 01 February 2021
... respects resembles the poster Karl reads on the street. Further, Wachler’s idea of employing actors appears to be enacted through the recruitment process of the Oklahama theater. There is also a cunning resemblance between Wachler’s semicircular amphitheater and Kafka’s circular racetrack. Most important...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 65–81.
Published: 01 February 2008
...” and suffers “loss and injury,” while the “universal idea” that thereby asserts itself “remains in the background . . . , untouched and unharmed.” As if referring to the Armenian’s secret manipulation of the Prince’s passions, Hegel called this “the cunning of Reason.”37 The dark powers...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 215–224.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of time, it is taken as an obvious form of self-understanding that progress, putative though it may be, inevitably causes earlier generations to fall behind later ones, and that every temporal guise under which the cunning of reason appears includes and demands indifference toward all intermediate...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 1–23.
Published: 01 August 2011
... will we understand history as we should (GC, 8). Here we also find a harbinger of Hegel’s infamous statements about the cun- ning of reason. “Politics, religion, privation, virtue, coercion, reason, cunning, and all the powers that move the human race,” he says, “play out their momen- tous...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 83–95.
Published: 01 February 2008
... precedence over well-researched histories.30 We still do not know by whom, when, and for what purpose the Proto- cols was fabricated. What we hear is a narrative—to be precise, a conspiracy narrative. The actors this time are not Jews, however, but cunning secret agents, fanatical anti-Semites...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 99–123.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., philosophy should proceed from accepting knowledge in its most limited form, as it is immediately given. This is Hegel’s response to Kant in the opening paragraphs of the Phenomenology . Hegel’s cunning maneuver, of course, is to leverage the limitations attaching to such forms of knowledge against...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 133–162.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... Habermas’s diagnostic reduces the obstacles to European unification to national prejudices. It stakes the success of the promise on their being over- come: “Why shouldn’t [Heine’s] European notions of overcoming national prej- udices with the aid of the cunning of economic reason be able to come true...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 79–93.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and the freedom of choice is replaced by some cunning interest. The friendship between Wang and the bonze emerges from a material binding between two who are socially opposed, not from a choice between equals. Friendship is not the raw material to create a community, but here material bonds precede any...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2006
...). But, unlike the rapture of the subject longing for the unconditional and absolute freedom from itself, Odys- seus’s cunning transcendentalism yields to expression on the condition that it will impress and reaffirm, at any price, the unquestionable priority of self- preservation, perpetuating both...