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Uneasy Pleasing: Film as Mass Art
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... not ascribe to film as film negative qualities, possibly diminishing his reflective capacities. The dispute about the difference between mass art and high art is taken back to the emergence of the notion of culture industry as replacement for mass art in the frame of social theory. Comparing the different...
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Hermann Hesse's Colonial Uncanny: Robert Aghion , 1913
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of difference, Hesse presents an India so full of hybrid “natives” and European doppelgängers that Aghion cannot find the difference that he would, in Bhabha's model, have to disavow. Mirror images are everywhere, troubling Aghion with the same returns that Freud will describe only six years later: of ancient...
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An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gerhard Scholem
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 9–24.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Steven E. Aschheim Victor Klemperer, Hannah Arendt, and Gerhard Scholem were three formidable German Jewish intellectuals with radically different conceptions of German identity, liberalism, Marxism, Jewishness, and Zionism and who confronted the great crises of their times with greatly divergent...
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We Can Come Very Close to Them: Solidarity and the Struggle for Liberation in The Aesthetics of Resistance
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 43–63.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of this analysis were Weiss’s concern with how solidarity can be forged between groups separated by geographic distance or cultural difference, and with the difference between national liberation and the more thoroughgoing emancipation Weiss described in 1965 as the “abolition of the reigning injustices...
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Undisciplined Knowledge: Intersectional Black European Studies
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 37–49.
Published: 01 November 2023
... past (and present), including the role of the Left, and involve a radically different approach to disciplinarity. Finally, the article offers the recent intersectional Black European studies initiative as an example of such a radically different model of academic knowledge production. fatima.el...
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Jewish Revenge on the German Screen
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 107–129.
Published: 01 February 2025
... for a mass audience. More recently, a crop of new films does something radically different. This essay tracks Jewish revenge plots in contemporary German film. Films such as Ende der Schonzeit ( Closed Season , dir. Franziska Schlotterer, 2012), Winterjagd ( Winter Hunt , dir. Astrid Schult, 2017), Masel Tov...
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Shame and beyond Shame
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 155–164.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Timothy E. Pytell This article examines the Holocaust testimonies of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski. Focusing on how Levi's testimony leaves one feeling shameful about man's inhumanity to man, while Borowski's testimony leaves one feeling disgusted and nauseated, Pytell argues that these different...
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Negativity (Dis)embodied: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Theodor W. Adorno on Mimesis
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the nonidentical and negative, which turns against itself in the identitarian machine of Western rationality and, more generally, in the immanent religions of fascination. The divergence between the authors, who belong to different intellectual schools (Frankfurt School and deconstruction, respectively), concerns...
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Wobei : Becoming Arigona Zogaj in (Anti-) Immigrant Austria
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 121–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
...-immigrant positions, the Zogaj case was a straightforward matter of abiding by or not abiding by the law. However, the judicial process, especially once the case reached the Austrian Asylum Court and the Constitutional Court, was focused on a different set of issues, concerning the category of life...
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Virtual Ignorance: The Blind Spot in German Public Sphere Theory
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 189–201.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of the public sphere, which calls into question the very distinction between private and public. This article presents these theories in their different scopes, points to their blind spot concerning the blurring of the private-public distinction, and offers some normative desiderata for a future public sphere...
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Searching for Evidence between Generations: Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 57–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and his emphasis on pure observation can be termed an “aesthetics of withdrawal.” Insofar as this marks him as a younger documentary filmmaker, his approach reveals major differences between the directors' two generations. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Searching for Evidence between...
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Catholicism and the Economy of Miracles in West Germany, 1920–1960
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 9–40.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., to demonstrate the continuity in the Catholic approach from Weimar to the Cold War. It also analyzes the differences between the two periods, exploring why Germany's Catholics were far more committed to the Federal Republic than they had ever been to its Weimar predecessor. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc...
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Reflections on the European Promise
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 133–162.
Published: 01 August 2017
... something other than a mere postnationalization. It requires a heightened understanding of global justice and a critical relation with past and present liabilities that is more reforming of European consciousness. Borrowing from aesthetic idioms, the article terms this different outlook an “anamorphic gaze...
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(Mis)reading the Market? The Publishing Business and Theory Transfer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 39–60.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and the United Kingdom, it considers the relationship between academic, commercial, and broader cultural trends. Structural differences in academe and the publishing industry on both sides of the Atlantic are shown to lead to conflicting expectations, while an unequal language barrier seems to work against...
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The Anonymity of Siegfried Kracauer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
... from its treatment in Kracauer's novel Ginster to the role the author ascribes to it in his correspondence with Theodor W. Adorno, to the posthumous fate of his works on both sides of the Atlantic. A comparative reception history shows the different valences of Kracauer's name in German and Anglo...
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Koselleck in America
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 167–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the essays published in three volumes in the years immediately before and after his death in 2006 make apparent how these different interests are laced together in his theory of possible histories, his Historik . © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Reinhart Koselleck conceptual history time...
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The Concrete: Grasping the Austerity of Modernist Architecture
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in character, nonetheless pointed beyond capitalism. Despite their differences, all three offer versions of the same line of reasoning, an understanding about architectural space as a critique of those parts of society that appear to be constituted abstractly and a celebration of those parts of society...
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Spectator and Society: Lukács, Riegl, and the Phenomenology of the Individual Subject
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 175–203.
Published: 01 November 2018
... into these accounts of subjectivity: what Riegl finds in the Kunstwollen of different works of art, Lukács finds in the formal structures of social reality. The article thus reinterprets reification as the formal definition of the subject as an isolated individual playing no active part in the structure of social...
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The Flight of the Gods: A Comparative Study of Martin Heidegger and Oskar Goldberg
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 221–252.
Published: 01 August 2019
.... Despite these commonalities, Heidegger and Goldberg differ in how they understand the place of human animality once this renewal takes place. Heidegger calls for the sacrificing of the people’s animality in their readiness to die for the “last god,” whereas Goldberg envisions the increasing power...
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Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Amir Engel Abstract This article reconstructs two “modes of memory” in postwar West Germany and explores an underappreciated historical trajectory. These two modes offer radically different ideas about why Germany should remember its past. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Karl Jaspers called...
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