...Susan Rubin Suleiman Purporting to be the first-person narrative of a former SS officer writing many years after World War II, Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes , published in France in 2006, became the biggest best seller of the year and won the most prestigious French literary prize, the Prix...

...Stefanos Geroulanos This essay, a history of multiple receptions, assesses three interdependent innovations in French thought during the 1930s: the ascendancy of several Russian émigré intellectuals, especially the historian of religion and science Alexandre Koyré; the introduction...

... the tradition of Scottish enlightenment in distinction to its French correspondent, the article endorses a convention that claims the preservation of the bond to transcendence as a moral grounding of human behavior and action, on the one hand, while approving modernity and the positive achievements...

..., Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilbert Simondon—these concepts came to define the place of Husserl in modern thought. Husserl's phenomenology structured the use and meaning of these concepts for a new generation of French philosophy; at the same time, it came under increased scrutiny, at least in part on account...

..., and “objective”—but also reveals sliding generational conflicts and alliances and shifting constellations of cosmopolitan taste. New trends in European (and, in particular, French) film culture provided approaches, vocabularies, and inspiration for a transition in the style, perspective, and function of German...

... society possible does not in fact fully belong to it. More than fifty years after Simmel's essay the concept of an “irreducible outside” reemerged in the works of the French poststructuralists as a way to analyze the primacy of strategies of resistance over manifestations of power. Exploring how processes...

... are primarily motivated by his philosophy of history. Hegel accurately sensed the loss of faith in historical progress that Schiller experienced in the wake of the French Revolution; in essays written shortly before Wallenstein appeared, Schiller associates the tragic sublime with humans' ability to act...

... a book with profound linguistic concerns. A speaker of five languages—English, French, Welsh, Czech, German—the protagonist has the facility of the ideal twentieth-century cosmopolitan. At the same time, however, he is utterly immobilized by recurring episodes of radical aphasia. Dubow and Steadman-Jones...

... work among Spanish and French graphic artists in 1931. This essay therefore sheds light on what has remained obscured by the political history of the interwar and postwar years. © 2009 by New German Critique, Inc. 2009 I am grateful to Sherwin Simmons, who commented on an earlier draft...

...Anne Röhrborn Abstract Stephan Geene’s film Umsonst premiered in the Forum program at the 2014 Berlinale. A portrait of postmillennial Berlin-Kreuzberg, the film in crucial ways takes its inspiration from the French New Wave and the Situationist International. It focuses on members of a young...

... attempt to make Leonardo da Vinci relevant for the French poet’s age. Comparing Blumenberg’s comments on contemporary art with those in US formalist art criticism (Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried) provides a unique constellation of later modernist thinking on the plastic arts (painting and sculpture...

...’ identifi ed.” Finally—so tell us the French weeklies Le Figaro Magazine and L’express—Mikhail Lepekhin had discovered who was behind the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. After fi ve years of research in formerly inac- cessible and secret Russian archives, he named Matvei Golovinskii, a reaction- ary...

... : University of Pittsburgh Press . Breger Claudia . 2009 . “Zur Debatte um den ‘Sonderweg deutsche Medienwissenschaft.’” Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft , no. 3 : 124 – 27 . Cusset François . 2008 . French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Co. Transformed the Intellectual...

... rules that we’ve patiently learned to appraise and to appreciate. The fact that Littell has researched his story well is acknowledged all around. But an outcry rings out: “The man can’t write!” “How ghastly!” Mostly from Iris Radisch. She fi nds that the French critics who treat Littell far...

... . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Carr David . 1987 . Review of Futures Past . History and Theory 26 , no. 3 : 197 – 204 . Christofferson Michael Scott . 1999 . “An Anti-totalitarian History of the French Revolution: François Furet's Penser la Révolution in the Intellectual Politics...

...-Week08_Nov4_JamesClifford.pdf . Cunningham Valentine . 2005 . “Theory? What Theory?” In Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent , edited by Patai Daphne Corral Will H. , 24 – 41 . New York : Columbia University Press . Cusset François . 2008 . French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze...

... 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Hans Blumenberg metaphor French theory modernity References Adams David . 1991 . “Metaphors for Mankind: The Development of Hans Blumenberg's Anthropological Metaphorology.” Journal of the History of Ideas 52 , no. 3 : 152 – 66...

... such as a minimum wage and collective bargaining, it did not justify them on universal grounds. Like their predecessors in the French and American revolutions, the drafters of the German republican constitution stated clearly that these rights were based on nationality and were the rights “of Germans...

... for the New York Times . 41 In fact, the novel’s reception in the United States was a far cry from its success with the French audience. Those who considered the awarding of the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie Française and the Prix Goncourt well merited praised the novel precisely because...

... of the characters McKay may well have had in mind.23 Moholy-Nagy did not seem to be aware that the same site had recently fascinated filmmakers working in the French context: Jean Epstein, who was born in Poland and had grown up in Switzerland before moving to France, set his fictional film of a “found...