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Traces of the Other: Adorno on Natural Beauty

André Krebber
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 169–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288181
Published: 01 August 2020
...André Krebber Abstract This article explores Theodor W. Adorno’s recovery of natural beauty in Aesthetic Theory against the background of current debates in environmental aesthetics and evinces the relationship of his reading of natural beauty to his critique of the domination of nature. From...
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On the Meaning of Eudemonic Arguments for a Deep Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics

Konrad Ott
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 105–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511895
Published: 01 August 2016
... to morals, eudemonic values refer to Immanuel Kant's notion of “humanity within personhood.” © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 environmental ethics phenomenology of nature environmental aesthetics humanism References Abram David . 2004 . “Reciprocity.” In Rethinking...
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Heimat and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung in Ecocritical Perspective

Axel Goodbody
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511907
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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The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction

Heather I. Sullivan, Bernhard F. Malkmus
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511835
Published: 01 August 2016
... in the wake of the global environmental crisis. This crisis is global in that it has impacts across the planet, though debates continue to rage about who is responsible and who 14. Crutzen and Stoermer, “Anthropocene.” For recent discussions in philosophical and aesthetic contexts, see Bonneuil...
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The Last War: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

Reinhold Martin
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 63–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-011
Published: 01 November 2006
... Game and the policy think tanks on which it was based depended on the translation of diverse environmental variables into a set of linguistic or protolinguistic units. This technical logic paralleled—but did not exactly map onto—the aesthetic aspects of architectureʼs linguistic turn...
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Ernst Jünger, Theodor Adorno, and the Idea of Natural History

Andrew McCann
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 69–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11309197
Published: 01 November 2024
... history, anticipates some of the most topical contemporary work in the environmental humanities. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 symbol allegory Gestalt environmentalism antihumanism “As the hieroglyphs attest,” write Max Horkheimer...
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Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows: Distributed Agency in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter

Kate Rigby
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511919
Published: 01 August 2016
... . “Gernot Böhme's Ecological Aesthetics of Atmosphere.” In Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches , edited by Goodbody Axel Rigby Kate , 139 – 52 . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . ———. 2015 . Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics...
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Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall

Kate Rigby
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 115–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-005
Published: 01 August 2007
... and the Environmental Tradition (London: Routledge, 1991); Karl Kroeber, Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biol- ogy of Mind (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge...
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Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability

Markus Wilczek
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511931
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Driver Thackwray S. . 1996 . “Time, Mankind, and the Earth.” In Time-Scales and Environmental Change , edited by Driver Thackwray S. Chapman Graham P. , 1 – 24 . London : Routledge . Crutzen Paul J. 2006 . “The ‘Anthropocene.’” In Earth System Science...
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Trash and Transformation: The Search for Identity in Wolfgang Hilbig's Die Kunde von den Bäumen and Alte Abdeckerei

Gillian Pye
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550872
Published: 01 August 2012
... for identity and a language in which to express it. Furthermore, her discussion considers Hilbig's treatment of the loss of Heimat in his portrayal of material things in a state of transition between presence and absence, material experience and the aesthetic moment. Finally, Pye examines how, through...
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Kant and Adorno on Mind and World: From Wild Beauties to Spiral Jetty

J. M. Bernstein
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 107–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989274
Published: 01 August 2021
...J. M. Bernstein Abstract Theodor W. Adorno’s governing procedure in Aesthetic Theory is to reconstruct the terms and concepts of traditional aesthetics and the philosophy of art through the actuality of artistic modernism in its various guises. The necessity of this procedure turns...
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The Concrete: Grasping the Austerity of Modernist Architecture

Parker Everett
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6977777
Published: 01 November 2018
... and architects believed that they could eliminate the abstract and superfluous dimension in the built environment with an aesthetic that emphasized concrete and productive elements, thereby expressing and accentuating a new and better social order. However, they believed that the social and environmental residue...
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Ephemeral Spaces and Pneumatic Architecture: The Films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Fatima Naqvi
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727455
Published: 01 November 2019
... his oeuvre’s focus on underlying continuities (work, social bonds, environmental degradation, xenophobia) when seen against the rapacious passage of time. In what follows, I examine Geyrhalter’s singular use of what I term “partitive images” to bring into focus the ephemeral character...
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Teddie’s Landschaft

Sherry Lee
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 85–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989260
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sherry Lee Abstract This article considers the concept of cultural landscape ( Kulturlandschaft ) from Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory , exploring how the philosophy of natural beauty in relation to historical built environments resonates with ideas of musical landscape and experiences...
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The Call to Political Geography

Quinn Slobodian
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 185–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10708433
Published: 01 November 2023
... was “Weimar Cabaret.” Sam Mendes directed a remake of Cabaret , starring Alan Cumming as a twee dead ringer for Otto Dix’s portrait of Sylvia von Harden. Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990) introduced Caligari aesthetics to a younger generation with the protagonist’s haircut borrowed from the Cure’s...
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Singularly German in the Pluriverse

Chenxi Tang
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 193–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10708447
Published: 01 November 2023
... , 176 . References Adorno Theodor . Aesthetic Theory . Translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . London : Continuum , 2002 . Beiser Frederick , ed. The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . Benjamin...
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The Nature of Critique: Revisiting Adorno’s “Natural History” amid the Postcritique Debates

Johannes Wankhammer
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 99–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11309210
Published: 01 November 2024
... transformation rather than blindly calling for the transformation of given limits. Pace Adorno, such natural-historical critique may clarify emerging forms of political praxis, especially those fighting for environmental justice. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024...
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The End of Art and the Future of Criticism in Wilhelm Worringer's Art History

Malika Maskarinec
New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 143–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3705739
Published: 01 February 2017
... in the world. At the heart of Worringer's text is the question of how we moderns identify and judge works of art. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Denkbild empathy aesthetics abstraction Kunstwollen References Böhringer Hannes Söntgen Beate , eds. 2002 . Wilhelm...
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A Natural History of Modernity: Bernhard Grzimek and the Globalization of Environmental Kulturkritik

Thomas Lekan
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511871
Published: 01 August 2016
... veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks in sub-Saharan Africa that segregated people and wildlife had their origins in an environmental Kulturkritik born of post-Nazi and Cold War...
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Ruins of the Cold War

Yuliya Komska
New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 155–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-027
Published: 01 February 2011
... of the terms' overlapping semantic scopes. This article interrogates postwar and Cold War as distinct registers of cultural analysis, rather than as vague chronological markers. Photographic adaptation and recoding of the ruin motif—a foundational element of the postwar aesthetic—for Cold War purposes offers...
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