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Precautions against Fan(atic)s: A Reevaluation of Adorno's Uncompromising Philosophy of Popular Culture
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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...
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Between History and Fiction
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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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Fritz Stern: An Interview on Günter Grass
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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...
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When the Perpetrator Becomes a Reliable Witness of the Holocaust: On Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes
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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...
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The Radicalism of the Banality of Evil: Ideology and Political Conformity in Arendt
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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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On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes
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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...
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At Home with Hitler: Janet Flanner's Führer Profiles for the New Yorker
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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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Billy Wilder's Cold War Berlin
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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...
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Wagnerian Self-Fashioning: The Case of Adolf Hitler
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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...
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Occult Conspiracies: Spirits and Secret Societies in Schiller's Ghost Seer
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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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From “Degenerate Art” To “Looted Art”: Developments and Consequences of National Socialist Cultural Policy
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 9–33.
Published: 01 February 2017
.... 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 that those in power had neither planned nor anticipated in this form.42
39. See Zuschlag...
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Tremor, Tick, and Trance: Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art
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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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“ Die Amerikanerin Scolds!”: How the Private Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem Went Public
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2019
... in a letter to Scholem: “I’ve come up with a fundamental 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...
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Seducing the Crowd: The Leader in Crowd Psychology
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 63–77.
Published: 01 November 2011
... but simply embodies preexisting ideas: “In gen-
eral, he [Le Bon] derives the importance of leaders from the ideas of which
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...
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The “Psyche of the White Man” And the Mass Face on Film: Béla Balázs between Racialist and Marxist Physiognomics
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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
... 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 to reign until the
bitter end.”
9. Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (New York: Macmillan, 1947...
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Between Dramatization and Epicization: The Portrayal of Nazi Crimes in Exemplary German Films from the Late 1940s to the 1970s
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 2007
... on ousting, allowed
a clear distinction between fanatical National Socialists and the professional
military who early on had foreseen the defeat of Germany.
The fi lm covers the activities of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1945. Cana-
ris, who had helped the editor of a banned publication escape...
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An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gerhard Scholem
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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...
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Earthquake in Haiti: Kleist and the Birth of Modern Disaster Discourse
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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...
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Wounded Modernism: Adorno on Wagner
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Egoism is wholly
condemned, and the capacity 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...
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