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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 33–54.
Published: 01 February 2014
... in a new role: not as the great innovator of Jewish life but as a part of a German Jewish tradition dating at least to Maimon's time. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Reading Gershom Scholem in Context:
Salomon Maimon’s and Gershom Scholem’s
German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 41–73.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . “Neue Jugend.” Die Schaubühne , June 21 , 577 – 79 . Zschocke Erich . 1926 . Muss die Reklame künstlerisch sein um zu wirken? Cologne : Kölner Verlags-Anstalt und Druckerei . Dada: Art and the Discourse of Advertising
Kurt...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 2012
... German Critique, Inc. 2012 Earthquake in Haiti:
Kleist and the Birth of
Modern Disaster Discourse
Isak Winkel Holm
To a literary scholar, the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010 reads like a tragic
repetition of Heinrich von Kleist’s...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Samuel Clowes Huneke Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between suicide and homosexual discourses in modern Germany. Considering literature, gay periodicals, mainstream newspapers, letters, plays, and poetry, it asks how authors came to correlate homosexuality so strongly...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Daniel Weidner Walter Benjamin has always been both a fascination and an obstacle for intellectual history. He seems to relate to nearly every discourse of early-twentieth-century German history, but in a peculiar, even idiosyncratic, way that makes it difficult to circumscribe his own position...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
... life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely consider these new discourses on space, while studies on literary representations of space seldom include approaches to Heimat...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 115–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Ofer Ashkenazi Both during the Weimar years and in the early decades of the Cold War, in the wake of national catastrophes, Heimat imagery had played a vital role in the German identity discourse. This article analyzes how German Jewish filmmakers appropriated conventional Heimat imagery...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Joshua Dittrich Literary primitivism in select poems and essays by Gottfried Benn reveals complex interrelations of primitivist discourse with modernism, colonialism, and fascism in Weimar Germany. Arguing that Benn explicitly enters the discourse of Weimar (post)colonialism in the mid-1920s...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2014
.... This ambivalence can be understood as rhetorical, since it is informed by a series of metaphors and figures that make up the complex fabric of these discourses. A close reading of selected texts of Max Weber shows how they were essential to formulating the concept of secularization around 1900. The present essay...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of Benn’s critical engagement with the modern life sciences, and in particular with the discourses of medicine and psychology. The article focuses on Benn’s so-called Rönne novellas, written between 1914 and 1916, arguing that they record and enact the disintegration of body and subjectivity through...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 181–209.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jana Cattien Abstract This article interrogates the discursive regimes that underpin Leitkultur (guiding culture) discourse in contemporary Germany and argues that Leitkultur conjures Germany’s imagined “freedom from history” from within Enlightenment temporalities of liberal freedom. This requires...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 125–152.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Sabine Hake Abstract In the social imaginaries that sustained Nazi ideology from the 1920s through the 1930s, Arbeitertum , translated here as “workerdom,” played a key role in integrating socialist positions into the discourse of the Volksgemeinschaft . Workerdom proved essential for translating...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 97–120.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and early 1950s. They interpreted their own contemporary reality through the discourse of political theology, using the Schmittian concepts of divine decision, the crisis of democracy, and so on. With the entrance of Geulah Cohen—a former terrorist and a right-wing activist, but also a close friend...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 39–63.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Anna M. Parkinson This article analyzes a paradigm shift in the late 1980s within West German discourses on coming to terms with Germany's Nazi past. Exploring the role of citation and ekphrasis in Anne Duden's book The Judas Sheep , the article argues that the relationship between postwar...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 41–67.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Nitzan Lebovic This article focuses on the legal discourse of the first decade and a half of the Israeli state, from 1947 to 1961, through a close reading of texts written by the first generation of legal theorists in Israel. I show that conditions formed during that period still run our present...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 1–31.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Lydia Goehr This essay investigates global discourse in the shadow of the 1960s. It draws on the views of Nelson Goodman, Marshall McLuhan, and Theodor W. Adorno to explore three concepts central to music in the age of global transmission: compliance, current, and virtuality. It looks at “Three...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 171–189.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Erik Butler This essay shows how Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness mobilizes discourses of broad cultural currency to achieve a practical objective: the author's release from psychiatric custody. In contrast with the two major currents that dominate Schreber scholarship...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Axel Goodbody This article considers the human-nature relationship in modern Heimat (homeland) discourse and its depiction in literary representations of Heimat . The first part examines the environmental turn in thinking on Heimat in the 1970s and shows how it was part of a wider shift...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 195–214.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of a political anti-Semitism that he distinguishes not only from premodern Christian anti-Judaism but also from nineteenth-century racialist discourse. Under National Socialism, anti-Semitism was transformed from an attitude, based on personal convictions, to an “institution of Nazi statesmanship.” For Pollock...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Kate Rigby Theodor Storm's novella Der Schimmelreiter is set in northwestern Germany, a region with a long history of dyke building and coastal flooding. Drawing on insights into material agency, complexity, and the entwinement of materiality and discourse that have emerged from science studies, I...
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