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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
Published: 01 February 2016
... and never truly “works,” revealing literature's fragile dimension. Fragility not only addresses the vulnerability of bare human life but conveys the condition of literary and cultural studies, torn between ethical responsibility and the continuous threat to fail in the process. With a genealogical approach...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 33–45.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of these three concepts. Efforts to render Husserl useful and contemporary, together with efforts to overcome his thought, played a definitive part in the critical rethinking of individuality, scientificity, and European identity that influenced the 1960s as well as the tense and fragile position...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 1–2.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of this striking ability to work with a tradition and to transform it
creatively at the same time.
Even before the disease struck, Miriam seemed fragile, but we all knew
that she could be tough as nails. Incredibly open and generous toward friends
and intellectual companions, she was a superb listener...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 2012
... the perspective of vulnerability, disaster is always already present as a
latent problem: only a tiny push is needed to trigger a manifest calamity.
Like New Orleans, Haiti was a worst-case scenario of disaster vulnera-
bility. A recent World Bank country study, Social Resilience and State Fragil-
ity...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 129–157.
Published: 01 August 2011
... to the existential
fragility of human worlds. Indeed, Dreyfus, as one of his mentors, might have
even alerted him to the notion.
33. For more on American interest in Heidegger at this time, see my Heidegger in America.
34. On the notion of philosophy and measurement in Heidegger, see David Kleinberg...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2019
... because their religious beliefs and cultural way of life pose a threat to the state. Hannah Arendt Immanuel Kant refugee hospitality pariah Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Arendt highlights the fragility of the modern nation-state in dealing with extreme political...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 129–153.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., that this moment of communication between the two can occur at all. The instability of the discourse is highlighted from the very start as Clawdia warns her interlocutor regarding the pencil, “Take care, it is a bit fragile” (Prenez garde, il est un peu fragile) ( Z , 505). While the pencil itself might be read...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 35–45.
Published: 01 August 2014
... medium specificity. Film preservation
and archiving must rethink what aspects of film culture must be preserved and
how to do it. The new availability of our moving image heritage through digi-
tal means has in effect universalized the archive, even as the fragility of new
media (once believed...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 149–161.
Published: 01 November 2023
... for boxing gloves ( fig. 2 ). With this associative placement of the fabric, the photographer gestures to binding as defense, a holding-in-place and protection of fragile bones and a fragile self. Sitting before the cinema screen, my memory of Muholi’s image overlays the marks of pain on Fariba’s back...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
... content. It points to a crucial but fragile connection between unnamed
parts that becomes visible especially when something goes wrong.
Hansen’s investment in the Frankfurt School’s intellectual and method-
ological promiscuity is not limited to Negt and Kluge. Most obviously, we can
understand...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 85–108.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., internally fragile balances, which one might possibly term disjunctive
syntheses. But perhaps, in the sense of the foundational propositions set out
above, there really is no possibility of getting from 2 to 3, for at the instant
when I identify something as something, I cannot also identify myself...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 181–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
... their ability to defend themselves against discriminatory, unjust treatment (Jones and Norwood, “Aggressive Encounters and White Fragility” ). 44. Srinivasan, “Aptness of Anger,” 127 . 45. Sennett, Building and Dwelling , 262 . 46. Sennett, Building and Dwelling , 263 . 47. See...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 63–86.
Published: 01 August 2012
... discussion, see P. J. Bowman, “Fontane’s Der Stechlin: A Fragile
Utopia,” Modern Language Review 97, no. 4 (2002): 877–91. A further intertext is Christa Wolf’s
GDR novel Nachdenken über Christa T. (Hamburg: Luchterhand, 1969), in which a house on a lake
outside Berlin is mentioned late in the text...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 199–205.
Published: 01 February 2013
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accused Israel of secretly stockpiling nuclear weapons, of reserving “the right
to a first strike” against a people (Iran) “subjugated by a loudmouth,” and of
being “a threat to this world’s already fragile peace.” In the name of “repara-
tions,” he continued, Germany was supplying Israel...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 1–7.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... That the arrival of democracy
was marked by constant political violence, assassinations, and attempts at vio-
lent coups from both right and left had a profound effect on German political
thought. Many supporters of the republic came to believe that democratic
regimes were inherently fragile and required...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of melancholia, of
the subject’s weakness and fragility, etc6 Adorno does not advocate a return
to the pure mimesis but suggests combining it with “construction” as another
fundamental principle of art. “It is the constellation of mimesis and rationality,
expression and spirit, that defines...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... 4 He worked on his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main under the supervision of Theodor W. Adorno but fell out with his mentor over student occupations and political differences in the late 1960s. Krahl was often described as a “pale and fragile young man with a glass eye,” but it is not known how he...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
Published: 01 November 2022
... their overt teleological assertions. The temporal positioning of their announcement is as incoherent and ambiguous as the predictions themselves are presented as precise and reliable. The assuredness of the narrator’s anticipated retrospection is counterbalanced by its disjointed temporality, a fragile...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ideology today dictates that the more individuals are delivered over to objective constellations, over which they have, or believe they have, no power, the more they subjectivize this powerlessness” (TM, 93). Yet the economic boom of the late 1950s seemed fragile “precisely because famine continues...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... relationships and perturbations. 52 At the fragile apex is the most detached animal, the human being—the being that Blumenberg stated has no nature but who nonetheless makes itself possible within nature. Detachment is also experienced as anxiety, which motivates storytelling and problem solving but without...
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