...Jennifer Fay In 1959 Theodor W. Adorno asked, “What does working through the past mean?” Post–World War II German society and much of Western Europe was in the full throttle of the economic miracle and bent on normalizing the present by suppressing the Nazi past and the Holocaust. Adorno’s...

... 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...

...: Yale University Press, 1925). 150  Liberal Alternatives during the Crisis of Democracy from a well-known Jewish banker’s family in Frankfurt am Main, he not only was part of the German delegation sent to sign the Versailles Treaty but also participated in numerous international economic...

.... Marginalized during the era of postmodernism and postmetaphysical critical theory, Georg Lukács (1885–1971) has made a strong comeback since the world economic crisis of 2008. Over the last fifteen years the Hungarian philosopher and literary theorist has returned to academic and public debate worldwide...

... the disin- tegration of the German capitalist system.44 A crisis was brewing, politically, economically, made manifest in soaring unemployment, bankruptcy, volatile politics, and ever-increasing street fi ghts between communists and National Socialists. Paradoxically, during this period...

... expressivity, the return to nature, or muscular self-improvement, as key to the ideal society. The economic crisis that engulfed Germany after the Wall Street crash would make all such idealisms redundant—or, at least, the liberal bourgeois, communitarian varieties promoted in UHU . The disappearance...

... that decides about the potentialities of history in actu,” as Koselleck asserts. Language “bundles, as a storehouse of past experiences, conditions of possible events.”47 We cannot know how a particular event— whether a revolution, civil war, defeat, or social and economic crisis—might unfold, but we...

... politics might degenerate into “mere ad campaigns.” For him, parliamentary politics served only as a guarantor of democratic pluralism, not an end in itself. So long as the economy continued to grow, the SPD could safely function as one democratic party among others. But should an economic crisis like 1929...

... as education centers for misguided leftists. Finally, the jobs rationale, very important as the effects of the world economic crisis continued to be strongly felt, noted the eco- nomic benefits that the camps brought to the towns in which they were located.11 Supportive reports were reinforced...

... democracy produces a crisis in the deliberation in the public sphere. Public opinion generated in the public sphere no longer can meaningfully address the issues to a national government; the public sphere loses its regulatory function. Economic interactions increasingly transgress national...

..., and the United States (for most of cinema history four of the five largest markets for international film) and uncovers an enduring tradition of such pronouncements. Nevertheless, in institutional, economic, sociological, and discursive terms, the perception of a newspaper-cinema-criticism crisis...

... on terror and eventually the global financial crisis, when German studies seemed to lose the plot and many historians of German quietly exited the subfield. The essay concludes with a reflection on political geography as a way to engage with German history and the German contribution to the world of ideas...

... , as much as an interaction with nature—which exists independently from humans—as well as simultaneously determined by the economic structure of society at any one time.” 66 What is more, this interrelation of the social and the natural is decisive in understanding Lukács’s theory of “crisis...

... in Bildern was published, economic stabilization drew to an end and gave way to years of economic hardship. Socioeconomic upheaval had occurred already in 1928.23 The crash of October 1929 hit Germany particularly hard, as the economic crisis inten- sifi ed the tension between rural and urban cultures...

... welfare state was a promising step in the right direction, yet the neoliberal havoc since the late 1970s has created a world in which, especially in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, Adorno’s question appears urgent. Moreover, recent interest in Adorno’s thought provoked by Donald Trump’s racist...

... : Columbia University Press , 2009 . Husserl Edmund . The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy , translated by Carr David . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 1970 . Ifergan Pini . “ Cutting...

... spaces to win back film criticism as a counterbalance to market-driven film policies? Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 activist film criticism writing on film in Germany crisis on traditional film criticism future prospects of film criticism Film criticism finds itself...

... or poverty. Instead, the Refugee Convention is invoked to distinguish an economic migrant from an asylum seeker. When reflecting on the war and postwar refugee crisis that she herself was part of, Arendt raised an important question that is relevant for us today: how to provide equality before the law...

... revealed by the global economic crisis of 1929 could be most effectively remedied through new forms of construction. To remain as powerful as possible in light of a scarcity of funds, they organized CIAM in June 1928. 73 At the founding meeting, CIAM 1 at the Château de La Sarraz near Lausanne...

.... Reinhold Martin 67 and symbols. Many of these were devoted to measuring environmental, geo- political, and economic risk, and the corollary risk of ecological or social crisis (or, in the policy think tanks, nuclear war). Exemplary here are such exercises as Buckminster Fullerʼs World Game, begun...