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... 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...

... , no. 1 : 324 – 40 . Gersch Wolfgang . 1984 . “Versuche auf breiter Front: Balázs in Berlin.” In Balázs , Schriften zum Film , 2 : 9 – 48 . Gray Richard T. 2004 . About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz . Detroit : Wayne State University Press...

... 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...

..., 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...

... of this essay is that this shift from freedom to vulnerability closely correlates with the disappearance of figural effects of mediation. The disappearance of a mediating function, which according to Georg Simmel is what makes face-to-face interaction social in the first place, fundamentally changes...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Mathura Umachandran Birthdays are good moments for Janus-faced self-reflection: where have we been and where might we go? This essay undertakes such a reflective enterprise from the outsider perspective of a scholar trained in classics. It apprises a critique of German studies not in the mode...

... as comfortable illusions. Through this philosophical encounter, two faces of Critical Theory emerge, one oriented toward an analysis of the present and the other turned toward hopes for the future. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 Frankfurt School Critical Theory...