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The Flight of the Gods: A Comparative Study of Martin Heidegger and Oskar Goldberg
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 221–252.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of the transcendental life force in the human species as a whole. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Martin Heidegger Oskar Goldberg modern gnosticism vitalism geopolitics This article brings together two thinkers, one of whom, Martin Heidegger, will be known to all the readers...
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The Angels of Accumulated Suffering
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of that figure as the art object itself in Adorno’s analysis of art’s enforced distance from empirical reality. Just as the angel is forced to observe the wreckage of history from afar, the art object must remain framed within its own socially produced constraints, which protects it from what it observes...
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Renewing Resistance at Sea and on Isles: Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance , Volume 2, for the Twenty-First Century
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 135–157.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the Swedish figures Ström and Rogeby near the end of the second volume feature the imagination as a force of aesthetic and political resistance respectively: whereas the narrator’s engagement with Géricault’s Raft yields a vision of common plight and solidarity in defiance of colonialist and fascist...
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Revolt against Time: Jean Améry on the Constitution of the Self
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 155–178.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and revenge reattain the dignity of the victim. The problem of resentment emerges for Améry when revenge is no longer possible. Resentment is in this sense a revolt against time as an unstoppable force that blocks the way to revenge and hence to the reattainment of the dignity of the victim. yfeller...
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Unfolding Political Emergence: The Knowledge of Visual Artworks in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 65–91.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the experience of the victim with the perspective of the witness. In this way, it is argued, Weiss’s narrative enables an identification with the mute experience of destruction while converting that experience into a future-oriented political force: the emergence and continuation of collective struggle...
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The Distinction between Mythic and Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” from the Perspective of “Goethe's Elective Affinities ”
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 93–120.
Published: 01 February 2014
... 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...
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Between Israel and Germany: Therapeutic Return to the Place of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 179–197.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Ido Ramati The article explores the phenomenon of return to Germany in contemporary Israeli cinema and argues that this return encodes a therapeutic construct for cultural healing from the traumas of forced migration and the Holocaust. Trauma studies supplies a theoretical framework...
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John Heartfield's Thälmann Montages: The Politics behind Images of International Antifascism
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 1–24.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... By investigating the fate of Münzenberg's Thälmann campaign and his supraparty organization the Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, the article examines why the Comintern undermined the AIZ , a forceful proponent of antifascism in the European public sphere, and how Joseph Stalin intended to control Münzenberg's media...
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Seductress, Storyteller, and Subject: Helen of Argos and the “Feminine” Complex of Dialectic of Enlightenment
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 155–179.
Published: 01 February 2018
... , which reads the hero’s epic journey as an allegory for the emergence of subjectivity. Horkheimer and Adorno interpret Homer’s female characters as sensual forces of nature that Odysseus must resist in his quest for homecoming. Yet, conspicuously absent from Horkheimer and Adorno’s analysis—and previous...
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Deconstructing Orthodoxy: A Failed Dialogue between Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., it is a structural force in the history of Western thought that returns in Jewish, Christian, and even secular phenomena. Nonetheless, for both scholars, messianism was a paradoxical, anarchic, apocalyptic, and revolutionary phenomenon best understood from the perspective of heresy. Focusing on the role of heresy...
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Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows: Distributed Agency in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
... tale foreground the ineluctable force of viewpoint in any narrative performance of ecocatastrophe. As such, it exemplifies how narrative fiction can provide an imaginative space of reflection to investigate both the complex causality of hybrid natural-cultural disasters and different modalities...
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“The Odium of Doubtfulness”; or, The Vicissitudes of Metaphorical Thinking
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 61–81.
Published: 01 February 2009
...” the dynamics of totalitarianism, read as an ongoing attempt to “destroy” the coercive force of totalitarian logicality. What the calculated unpredictability of Arendt's speech act, what its stylistic dissonance and the correlating dislogic seem to invoke, is the epistemic appropriation of the totalitarian...
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Failing to Connect: Itinerations of Desire in Oskar Roehler's Postromance Films
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 75–98.
Published: 01 February 2010
... an entire generation in his films as assuming the affective force of necessary failure and, as such, utopian hope. Although individual films never offer up their utopia as “realistically” obtainable, the sensation of utopia emerging from within the itinerative serialization of one and the same problem...
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The Place of Rubble in the Trümmerfilm
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 9–30.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., of the nation's survivors. As the rubble on the streets and the destruction in a returned soldier's mind, material damage and mental wreckage, become intertwined, the compensatory narrative suggests that both have been caused by outside forces. By scrutinizing the prominent role of rubble in the so-called rubble...
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Between Athlos and Arbeit : Myth, Labor, and Cement
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 125–152.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of anthropomorphism and abstraction that structures modern production. Müller also considers mythical thinking itself a force of production and a technology; it is, Müller wrote, “an aggregate, a machine, onto which other new machines can always be coupled.” Both myths of labor and myth as labor converge...
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The Ruined Picture Postcard: Dresden's Visually Encoded History and the Television Drama Dresden
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 85–113.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Susanne Vees-Gulani The great popularity of the TV docudrama Dresden (2006) can be explained chiefly by its locale and subject matter: ever since the Allied forces bombed the city, many have seen it as the key symbol for the brutality of modern warfare. Immediately after he bombings, before...
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Love, Actually? Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and the Possibility of Love in Capitalist Modernity
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 45–68.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Robbie Spiers Love is not regularly associated with the Frankfurt School. Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm are not regularly associated with each other. Yet, when we bring these Critical Theorists’ works together, a rich discussion of love emerges. Love is viewed by both as a dialectical force...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... on the planet's ecosystems have forced the humanities to reassess such anthropological and biological assumptions. Recent strategies of the environmental humanities include either reformulating classic humanism with ecological frames or seeking alternative, “posthumanist” perspectives that avoid its inherent...
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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
... focuses on the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich and the extremes of a state-run campaign against modern art that was part of a broader attempt to impose the National Socialist conception of art by force. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 National Socialism art policy degenerate art...
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Hildebrand Gurlitt and His Dealings with German Museums During the “Third Reich”
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 35–55.
Published: 01 February 2017
.... During the Weimar Republic, he became a driving force behind a museum reform movement promoting a policy for arts and culture that supported the collection of contemporary art in German museums. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Gurlitt had to step down from his museum role. He started a career...
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