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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 149–174.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., therefore, reads Adorno's philosophy of culture against the grain, and it does so by focusing on a constellation of concepts: fan, fanatic, fanaticism, Schwärmerei, Begeisterung , playfulness, and love. The article attempts to salvage a notion of critical fandom in and against Adorno: to give serious...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 83–95.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Eisner’s book, we meet Sergei Nilus, the most
prominent publisher and commentator of the Protocols. Eisner shows him as a
gray-haired mystic who is often invited to court, a competitor to Rasputin, a
professor, and a wildly gesticulating fanatical anti-Semite (fi g. 2). We also learn
that Nilus...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 199–205.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., which is often fanatically religious, as a huge threat both to Israel
and to American domestic and foreign policy. But it is important to add that
there are voices of opposition: not only isolated voices like Remnick’s but
also organizations like J Street, which supports a democratic Israel...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 1–19.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of the everyday life of the Volk.] (505–6)
Hauser’s discourse here is a straight expression of Nazi fanaticism, with-
out the least hint of moral scruple or even moral questioning; it also allows
Littell to drive home the historical thesis that “ordinary” Germans knew
far more than they later admitted...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 197–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of ideology. The totalitarian movements, according to Arendt, were “embodiments of ideologies” ( OT , 249). She often describes the “fanaticism” of the members of the totalitarian movements (e.g., OT , 308, 348, 409) and the importance of the “scientific” predictions made by their spokesmen who have...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 21–34.
Published: 01 February 2009
...
“third eye,” the third eye of primitive man. (Gottfried Benn also dreamed of
the third eye in his essay “The Construction of Personality” around 1930.) A
delirium in which Aue sees Adolf Hitler as a fanatical, washed-up German,
one who attempts to copy all things Jewish; just as in the novels...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 101–126.
Published: 01 November 2007
...; Hitler’s nothing. All one can be sure of is that the view
point [sic] which pretends he is nothing because he looks like it, that he is a
mannekin and the others the men, that he isn’t the whole works in that vortex
of ambition and personal fanatical belief where Nazism is still...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 31–47.
Published: 01 August 2010
... ourselves in danger
from an enemy more subtle, more ruthless, more fanatic than any we have ever
faced. The time has come for Americans to challenge the aggressive, godless,
and treasonable practices of totalitarian communism.”26 Clearly, Coca-Cola
saw itself and was seen by many as, in the words...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 95–114.
Published: 01 August 2007
... would Chamberlain, Winifred Wagner, and
their friends want to declare their support for this unknown? Surely, Hitler’s
fanatical love of Wagner could not by itself have made much of an impres-
sion, for there was hardly a scarcity of Wagner enthusiasts in and around
Bayreuth. Nor would his...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 65–81.
Published: 01 February 2008
... partake in the late Enlighten-
ment turn against the deceptive power of a heated imagination and a “fanatic
enthusiasm.”19
Yet, instead of exorcising the rhetoric of ghostliness, fi rst introduced
into the narrative by representing the incantation of spirits, the text displaces
its fi gures...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 9–33.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the Nationalgalerie.40 They visited other museums and
assembled their materials. It was characteristic of the Nazi leadership to employ
dubious characters; in this case, Willrich and Hansen were both artistic amateurs
and fanatic denouncers.41 With the powers they claimed, they radicalized a pol-
icy...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
... us how Hitler won the struggle against his father and became a leader of Youth, instead of growing up into a responsible bureaucrat and father of a family. If we want to know what makes a fanatical Nazi tick, we must look at how the Nazi propagandists represented the German family—how they made...
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Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2019
... reconsideration of Zionism because I seriously believe that we’re going to lose everything if we continue on our present course. Then again, what I’ve written will cost me my last Zionist friends, that is, if they are fanatics.” 23 This first argument—crucial, as it mirrors their later arguments over...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 63–77.
Published: 01 November 2011
...
they are themselves fanatical supporters” (MP, 28). According to Freud, Le
Bon’s metaphor of herd and herder anticipates the problem of the leader: “The
herd instinct leaves no room for the leader whatsoever; the leader is added to
the masses only coincidentally” (MP, 73). In fact, Le Bon emphasizes that any...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... want to be provocative, but even if the gentlemen in question
had been fanatic Aryans, they still would not have done it.34
Balázs then questioned how the censors could overlook that, in The Birth of a
Nation, “a whole, great race of humanity is insulted, slandered, and besmirched...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Zeitung, August 22, 2004.
8. The European English-language booklet to the DVD does not have an equivalent passage,
just a quote from Eichinger that amounts to the same thing: “The fi nal days tell us a lot about how
the mass fanaticism functioned in the regime’s earlier years and how it continued...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 2007
...
organization. Canaris, whom Reinhard Heydrich, as head of the Sicherheits-
dienst (the intelligence service of the SS) and later head of the Reichssicher-
heitshauptamt (Reich Central Security Offi ce), was intent on ousting, allowed
a clear distinction between fanatical National Socialists...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 9–24.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., you prob-
ably both find so distasteful in me. Judging by your writings I must be a classic
example of what you both contemptuously take to be Jewish self-denial, self-
deception, even self-hatred. I could easily turn this accusation around, Herr
Scholem, and argue that your fanatic dissociation...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 2012
...
earthquake survivors help each other regardless of social and economical
standing. Part 3 takes place the day after the quake, where the citizens of San-
tiago gather in a Dominican church, the only church still standing. A fanatical
priest interprets the earthquake as a divine punishment and singles...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for unmediated pleasure is “weakened” if not
160 Wounded Modernism
“completely lost.” Bourgeois justice thus assumes an ascetic character, and the
idealized leader—from John Calvin to Robespierre—is one who combines a
fanatical pursuit of utopian virtue with a principled contempt for the actual...
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