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... that division. After a brief discussion of the forerunners to this spatial coupling in the spy tunnels under Vienna and Berlin in the immediate postwar period, I survey the use of tunnels as escape routes after the construction of the Wall in 1961 through their depiction in fiction, memoirs, history, and film...

... partner in Weimar Berlin, has consistently escaped the critical radar. This essay sheds light on Wilder's days as Eintänzer and points to the impact this work had on his films Hold Back the Dawn (1941) and Sunset Boulevard (1950). Furthermore, the essay places Wilder's series within the context of self...

... of this essay can be explained only when more substantial works of Benjamin are taken into account. Benjamin's contemporaneous essay “Goethe's Elective Affinities ” is used to elucidate the reasoning behind his view that divine violence provides an escape from myth's forces of totalization. Recent scholarship...

... of the leader escapes the narrow confines of a theory of identification, which Freudian psychoanalysis posits. The essay shows that such a conceptual intervention, questioning the very model of identification, also has implications for the possibility of narrating leadership, pointing to the need...

... that escapes the Logos of domination to become part of the Logos of gratification. What both Nietzsche and Marcuse affirm is a mode of being-as-becoming that is oriented toward joy and fulfillment, understood as the development of potentialities and the constant overcoming of existing subjective and objective...

... Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France and Related Matters. 3. Escape from New Orleans,” lacan.com (2005), www.lacan.com/zizfrance2.htm. 3. Louis-Philippe Dalembert et al., “Les auteurs haïtiens témoignent,” Libération, January 19, 2010. 4. Benjamin Wisner, At Risk: Natural...

... these comments it is evident that Bann has a central significance for Adorno, even if this escaped his own awareness for a time. While he acknowl- edges this, Adorno does not here give a definition of the concept itself and even seems to puzzle over its implications. Two things absolutely essential...

... to be dialectical. For instance, while Habermas registers the double meaning of originating ( Entspringen ), “the shudder at being uprooted and the sigh of relief at escape,” which is implicit in the relation of reason to myth that is elaborated in Dialektik der Aufklärung , this movement is characterized...

... Staunen ) of the newspaper reader who is, each day again, surprised by what merely repeats itself. Thought instead has to be concerned with the preparations for what would be truly astonishing—a “rescue” from the catastrophic downfall from which there seems to be no escape. 27 There is, from...

... and the Art of Laughter The counterpart to the culture industry is the realm of the artwork, which, in this case, offers one, if not the only, real possibility for escaping society’s homogenizing mechanisms.3 However, artworks also have an antagonistic rela- tionship to joy and happiness...

... frame as Lanzmann, Richard Rashke had also investi- gated the events at Sobibor. He interviewed twenty from among the nearly fifty survivors of the uprising and had at least one lengthy phone conversation with Lerner. This was the basis for his book Escape from Sobibor, first published in 1982...

... up their lives and become penniless refugees, had ordered their chil- dren to flee, or children who had made the painful decision to leave their parents behind] and also many husbands who left their wives and children to escape deportations to the labor camps in Germany. Not knowing...

... to understanding the escape of the contemporary self from itself in the process of sharing itself on social media. In the book I also grapple with Facebook’s mission to build a global community, an issue often hastily dismissed as a distraction from the company’s economic interests but that should, as I hold...

... of the waiters’ guild—except for the fact that in the German film, one has reserved a little escape hatch and has turned Harry into a Russian count who earns his living as a waiter. It is as a count, however, that he may kiss Madame’s mouth. Apart from the broad parallels in the plot, the Liedtke film cannot...

... occurs under the eyes of others, it is bound up with the social dimension of identity construction. These two sides of the con- cept are given careful attention in Emmanuel Lévinas’s essay “On Escape” first published in 1935. In it Lévinas describes shame as the presence of what “one seeks...

... apprehensions [Angst], which could help him to get over the archaic fear of the journey” (GS, 4.1:381). The Kriminalroman thus constitutes a momentary escape from the anxieties of modern life. In the station-as-cathedral of modernity, “we want to thank,” concludes Benjamin, “the mobile...

... ( Ausfahrt ), with the image of a ship at sea; the second poem, “Abschied von England” (“Farewell to England”), depicts the lyric “I’s” farewell to a country she has never even set foot in. Within this collection, “Herbstmanöver” is thus notable for explicitly thematizing departure as a form of escape...

... through mimesis, not through an increasing distance from the object” (DE, 7). Magic is a “bloody untruth” that deifies the natural. It needs to submit to rea- son, to be sure, but while myth is less bloody—in its drive toward abstraction and regularization, it escapes the fierce literalism of magic...

... ideology more generally. As one of the Jewish refugees forced to escape Nazi Germany, Arendt began to envision a new way of political thinking that aimed to resist all naturalistic and racist frameworks. As Margaret Canovan aptly notes, all of Arendt’s thought forms as a “continued reflection upon...

... sister and brother-in-law—Peter Weiss’s aunt and uncle—were murdered at Auschwitz. Jenö himself, after the business in England failed and the family relocated to Prague, had to escape the invading Nazis in 1938. The Weiss family ended up in Sweden and remained there in permanent exile. As Katja...