... on the disfigurement of social relations in late capitalist society. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Adorno on Kafka: Interpreting the Grimace on the Face of Truth Roger Foster Anyone who cannot come to terms with this life while...

... with the linguistic and performative transformations of sacred cursing in mind. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Herrschaftszeiten! Theopolitical Profanities in the Face of Secularization Arnd Wedemeyer The Coercive Value Implicit in the Idea of a Wrathful God...

... concepts into ones that could be made serviceable for Marxism. The “Psyche of the White Man” and the Mass Face on Film: Béla Balázs between Racialist and Marxist Physiognomics Laura Heins The works of Béla Balázs, the Hungarian-German-Jewish film...

..., vernacular modernism, D. W. Griffith's hieroglyphic language, and, not least, Babel as a structuring catastrophe of the linguistic dream. Here Doane isolates the concept of a universal language and traces its haunting of film theory in a direction that Hansen does not pursue—that of the close-up of the face...

...Mattias Frey The history of the Young German Film and the European New Waves is widely rehearsed as the story of rebels who sought new visual languages in the face of moribund film culture. Perhaps less consistently told is the contemporaneous debate in Western European film periodicals about...

... Schmitt (and on Müller's own appropriations of Walter Benjamin and Antonin Artaud), however, this article argues that for Müller the state of exception had become the norm. The emergency is the everyday. Mommsen's Block therefore narrates the author's dilemma, faced with a subject he finds all...

... for the analysis of three films and informs the investigation of the wider cultural and historical contexts of the return. Two of the films bring their protagonists to Germany to face the descendants of the perpetrators. The encounter with Germany and German characters initiates an emotional process that may...

... and Scholem’s thought also reveals a deep intellectual affinity that both were unwilling to face. This article shows how Scholem and Taubes had a surprisingly similar understanding of the nature of messianism, though not its scope. For Scholem, messianism remains a strictly Jewish phenomenon; for Taubes...

... of human experience in the face of modern empirical science's advocacy of perceptual conformism. New German Critique, Inc. 2009 “The Merely Illusory Paradise of Habits”: Salomo Friedländer, Walter Benjamin, and the Grotesque Thomas O...

... in the face of the meaninglessness of history. In his essay “The German Constitution,” composed during the same period as his Wallenstein review, Hegel instead formulates his familiar exhortation that we see history as meaningful. Hegel's objection to Wallenstein 's darkness, then, is primarily an objection...

...Isabel Capeloa Gil Literary communication faces challenges when addressing torture, an unmediated and untranslatable event that antagonizes representation. Given the radical difference between the act of reading torture and the experience thereof, the representation of the event is never mastered...

... read this text as an exploration of distributed agency that challenges humanist assumptions about both “man” and “nature” by disclosing the limits of rational human mastery in the face of unruly natural phenomena, both “inner” and “outer.” At the same time, the multiple narrative frames of this tragic...

... but also ensures that it may take no action on behalf of the suffering that it expresses. This analysis is then used to consider the possible status of the angel in the moment of contemporaneity, as art embraces sociality and faces a weakened autonomy. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020...

... or Gruselfilm ; rather, horror is deployed as a mode within a generic hybrid, reminiscent of what Linda Williams terms the “melodramatic mode” in very dissimilar films. These 1950s generic hybrids deploy this horror mode to deal with violent pasts as their characters face uncertain futures, a telling dilemma...

... evaluated. In most cases particular attention is paid to the extremes: the faces of good and evil—the extremes of strength, virtue, beauty, and their opposites—are often evaluated at length. One need only think of the “facies hippocratica,” with its sharp nose and sunken eyes. Attention...

... their world forever. Lene and Nelly form the center of four women, flanked by two others to their left. The faces of these two women are now marked by circles, which, Lene tells Nelly, signify that these friends are Nazis. The woman to their right (seated to the left of Lene) bears a cross above her head: she...

...—the “invisible, but evident expression”—through its knowing deployment of an opaque face and body, enacts the similar opacity of the historical crisis permeating Euro-American political economies in the mid- to late interwar. The performing body here absorbs and externalizes that state of crisis...