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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 177–204.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Mikko Immanen Abstract This article addresses the controversial question of Theodor W. Adorno’s debt to right-wing Zivilisationskritik by a close reading of his essay “Spengler after the Decline” (1950). The article shows that despite Adorno’s harsh polemics against Oswald Spengler’s Decline...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 217–224.
Published: 01 November 2023
... , this essay enjoins those of us who study Europe’s past, both recent and distant, to imagine our relationships to our objects of study beyond that of haunting and of debt owed to tradition. With such flexing of the imagination, this essay makes suggestions for how disciplinary overhaul and an explicitly...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 133–162.
Published: 01 August 2017
... nationalism economic crisis debt References Cabral Amilcar . 1965 . “The Nationalist Movements of the Portuguese Colonies,” translated by Handyside Richard . Marxists Internet Archive . www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1965/tnmpc.htm . Curtis Mark . 2004...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
... becomes socialism by means of the simple and compound interest that are functions of Schuld (consider the demonic ambiguity of this word)” (CR, 289). Here, the English translator adds a footnote to declare that Schuld means both guilt and debt. However, the homonymy of the term does not operate...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... to magic and not to myth. Although their description of Judaism shows that it owes to myth its emphasis on debt and exchange, they never discuss the relation between Judaism and its predecessor. Rather, they jump in to show how Judaism presents another way to deal with magic’s legacy. While myth...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 149–171.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of secularization one of the causes behind the genesis of the modern age essentially delegitimizes the notion that it is indeed a new epoch, for it lends credence to what Blumenberg referred to as a quasi–“cultural debt” of the new historical age to its predecessor. In Blumen- berg’s estimation...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
... but a debt: something owed to the past, a remainder one must seek to balance even as one acknowledges the impossibility of ever completing such a task. During this era of Wieder- gutmachung (reparations), many viewed institutional justice as an empty gesture. If the courtroom cannot resolve questions...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Adorno’s engagement with the concepts of the beautiful and the sublime (which is especially apparent in Aesthetic Theory and in his lectures from the 1950s and 1960s) but also to disregard his debt to Kantian aesthetics. In this regard, my point is not at all that Kant’s legacy is unimportant when...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 97–130.
Published: 01 November 2010
... theory; it would be foolish to deny the importance of Hegel and others for his argument. However, because most interpretations concentrate almost exclu- sively on his debt to the classical German tradition, I have systematically ignored them here: I have had to reduce the glare of the solar Hegel...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 9–25.
Published: 01 February 2008
... in which the Catilinarians are caught is a textual event.12 Let me give my own textually dependent renarration. A Gallic tribe, the Allo- broges, sends an embassy to Rome to ask for debt relief. They end up meeting with some of the Catilinarians, who explain the plot against the state, which...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 71–99.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to traditional, workerist imaginations of the proletariat, Marx’s definition thus suggests that “the proletariat is rather a working class in transition, a working class tending to become a class excluded from work” ( Endnotes Collective, “Misery and Debt” ). 25. Endnotes Collective, “Misery and Debt...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 39–63.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of violence. Further, the text grapples deeply with the “Schuld und Schulden” (guilt and debts)18 of National Social- ist violence from the protagonist’s position as what Duden in another context termed a “Weiterlebende im Post-Faschismus” (one who goes on living under postfascist conditions).19...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2021
... upon their creators, and the state was indebted for its beautiful men to beautiful statues” ( L , 10). While the beautiful men of the Greek city-state may have inspired the statues through love, it is the beautiful statue that is owed a debt for its ontological payout. The point here is that mimesis...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the singular film frame is a debt to Seidl he freely acknowledges, with whom he shares his autodidacticism. 18 The “rectitude” of the visuals and their manner of framing allow particularly fruitful comparisons between the two. 19 Geyrhalter’s films, of course, are documentary films in the term’s full...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 71–101.
Published: 01 February 2019
... dual implication of guilt and debt—was elevated to the level of philosophical self-diagnosis, where it was used to question not only the recent catastrophe but also the entire epoch in which it took place. Underlying these philosophical expressions of pessimism was a sense, not always explicated...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 15–30.
Published: 01 February 2006
.... Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989). The debts of the latter work to Benjamin are themselves strong, one commentator going so far as to call it little more than the application of The Origin of German Tragic Drama to Kierkegaard. See Peter Fenves, “Image...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 67–111.
Published: 01 February 2012
... to assessing the influence of Nietzsche on other members of the Frankfurt School, par- ticularly Adorno. It is no doubt true that Eros and Civilization owes a sig- nificant debt to Dialectic of Enlightenment. When Horkheimer and Adorno invoke Nietzsche in a discussion of the nature of the relationship...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 185–192.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Michael Lewis was hazarding theories in Vanity Fair about German personality and ideology, asking how and why it manifested in a predilection for austerity and what could look like economic sadism. How many times did we read that the German word for debt also meant guilt ? I surveyed the padded...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... accounts of Kafka’s radical break with the representational codes of realism obscured The Trial’s debts to Hein- rich von Kleist, Gustave Flaubert, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky—“meine eigentli- chen Blutsverwandten,” as Kafka called them.9 Adorno nailed his theses on aesthetic negativity...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of slowness” or the influential slow food movement—together might be thought to consti- tute a form of cultural resistance, even an oppositional ideology.45 But slow- ness is only one focus, and strategies of potential deceleration take various forms. Köhler’s own particular interest, with a debt...