...The Editors David was a gracious, open-minded, and solidary friend to us from his first stay in East Berlin in the early 1980s. He remained so throughout all the changing circumstances and revolutionary transformations in our lives. We were connected by a desire for productive debates...

... in it the kind of orientation that Habermas believes his version of secular reason holds in store. The article concludes by showing that Habermas’s thesis that secular reason can survive only in the form of a tradition that reaches back to either Immanuel Kant or David Hume is problematic because it neglects...

... of fiction—Ka-Tzetnik’s Salamandra , David Grossman’s See Under: Love , A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani —as well as more minor texts. Using theoretical work in narrative (E. M. Forster, James Phelan) and imagology (Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen on German national character), this article formulates the recent...

...Marc David Baer The article explores the Islam envisioned in the extensive writings of one of the most prominent German converts to Islam in Weimar Germany, the Jewish poet, philosopher, and political activist Hugo Marcus (1880–1966). Marcus's understanding of Islam is a surprisingly Eurocentric...

...David Bathrick New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Robert Wilson, Heiner Müller, and the Preideological David Bathrick Heiner Müller and Robert Wilson came from very different social and aes- thetic worlds: the one a Marxist dialectician from...

...David Bathrick New German Critique, Inc. 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Translated from the German by Rachel Leah MagShamhráin and David Bathrick Whose Hi/story Is It? The U.S. Reception...

...David Hughes Over the years, one question has irked critics of Daniel Richter's work more than any other: are his paintings political? For a German artist who began his professional career producing abstract-expressive pictures in 1995, it seemed particularly hard to maintain a left-wing stance...

...David Bathrick; Anson Rabinbach © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction David Bathrick and Anson Rabinbach The essays...

...David Bathrick The Hollywood director Billy Wilder was involved in three postwar films about Germany: a twenty-two-minute documentary about the concentration camps titled Death Mills (1945) that he edited; the other two, which he directed and coscripted, were the feature films A Foreign Affair...

...David L. Pike Like all of the great modernist cities of Europe, Berlin had a venerable and highly developed underground infrastructure: sewers, service tunnels, subways. But unlike the Paris sewers, the London Tube, or the Roman catacombs, the German capital was not identified in any mythic...

...David Bathrick; Sven-Erik Rose The articles in this special issue had their genesis in a six-week Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst summer seminar, “Technologies of Memory: Collective Traumatic Remembrance in Modern Germany,” which David Bathrick led at Cornell University in the summer...

...David Bathrick; Andreas Huyssen © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction David Bathrick and Andreas Huyssen David Bathrick met...

...David Gramling This article considers the Nazi concentration camps as sites of an epistemological collision between monolingualism and multilinguality—one that Holocaust studies has not come to full conceptual terms with. Gramling argues that this collision offers a primary, though undertheorized...

...David Kaufmann The theological underpinnings of Theodor W. Adorno's thought are nowhere clearer than in his insistence that reconciliation ( Versöhnung ) is a form of redemption ( Erlösung ). This essay charts the relation between these two terms by looking at Adorno's dialectically mortified...

...David Bathrick; Andreas Huyssen; Eric Rentschler © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction David Bathrick, Andreas Huyssen, and Eric Rentschler...

... Marianne’s frenzied attempt to reach the train station in time to find her son and pull him from the deportation train before it departs. At the end of the jam-packed fif- teen minutes, in a twist, she ends up rescuing the Silbersteins’ son, David, and returns home with him to find that Heinrich...

... of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions , edited by Fassin Didier Pandolfi Mariella , 29 – 58 . New York : Zone . Chandler David G. 1966 . The Campaigns of Napoleon . New York : Macmillan . Chua Daniel K. L. 1999 . Absolute Music...

... Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia .” In Reflections , edited and translated by Demetz Peter , 177 – 92 . New York : Schocken . Biale David . 2015 . “ Gershom Scholem on Nihilism and Anarchism .” Rethinking History 19 , no. 1 : 61 – 71 . Bielik-Robson Agata . 2013...

... of Richter’s paintings, Storr discusses Richter’s relationship to the seemingly outdated mode of history painting. Storr offers at least two possible precedents for Richter’s paintings of Andreas Baader in Man Shot Down 1 and Man Shot Down 2: Jacques-Louis David’s Death of Marat (1793) and Edouard...