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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 189–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the literal and figurative translation of his work in the United States and the Commonwealth. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 grand theory critical theory Frankfurt School poststructuralism References Aronowitz Stanley . 2012 . Thinking It Big: C. Wright Mills...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 99–118.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of what we have come to call cultural studies and strikes a familiar chord with Pierre Bourdieu's sociological investigations of the habitual. The absence of grand narratives and apocalyptic traits in Kracauer's theory of the ordinary politically differentiates him as well from the Frankfurt School...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... not ascribe to film as film negative qualities, possibly diminishing his reflective capacities. The dispute about the difference between mass art and high art is taken back to the emergence of the notion of culture industry as replacement for mass art in the frame of social theory. Comparing the different...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 131–161.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Hannes Bajohr While many interpreters of Hans Blumenberg have searched The Legitimacy of the Modern Age or Work on Myth for hints of a political theory, there is still no in-depth discussion of the only essay published during his lifetime that deals directly with political theory, “The Concept...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
...- a-story told by a nameless priest to Josef K. in the cathedral episode that appears by editorial tradition as the penultimate chapter of The Trial. “Before the Law” allegorizes the novel’s central moral predicament so sharply that it is extracted from the novel (as its model, the Legend of the Grand...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... concludes with a coda on the aftermath of Lukács’s Faust obsession in the work of the latter-day Marxist Franco Moretti. 10. Benseler, “Bemerkungen,” 316 . geulen@zfl-berlin.org Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Georg Lukács Franco Moretti Faust genre theory...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 53–78.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of drums and the roll of a fog machine as the film finally falls completely out of joint. In this film Linz constructs a dense network of film-historical and contemporary references. Its title synthesizes the titles of Murnau’s Finances of the Grand Duke from 1924 with Bourriaud’s theory manifesto...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 17–34.
Published: 01 November 2011
...C. Stephen Jaeger Critical theory has made little use of “aura” and virtually none of “charisma.” Drawing on passages from Homer and Marcel Proust, this article broadens the view of aura that has developed among Walter Benjamin and his commentators and adds to the view of Max Weber and his...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 51–62.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to produce a theory of charisma, Melville and Weber are drawing on the same source, King Ahab of the Old Testament. Based on these biblical traces in Melville and Weber, this article proposes a new reading both of Moby-Dick and of Weber's theory of charismatic leadership. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of comparison for his later and better-known works, especially in Soul and Form (1911), The Theory of the Novel (1916), and History and Class Consciousness (1923). This framework can reconnect Lukács’s early theory of literary genres to contemporary debates on form in literature, epistemology, and political...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 105–140.
Published: 01 February 2020
... theory, although it does resonate with Béla Balázs’s prediction of 1924 that film might someday be used to develop a “dictionary of gestures and facial expressions [that would be] like a dictionary of words.” 28 In short, this is a singularly unsophisticated response to the medium for someone alleged...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 153–180.
Published: 01 August 2023
... as mere prefiguration are obvious and probably the reason Blumenberg decided not to include them in his grand theory of myth. While the model of prefiguration and repetition clearly follows a mythical pattern, when contingent historical events become the archetype of political action, political myth...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 65–92.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., though they rarely simply disappear.11 Obsolescence, especially as it   8. Robert Kaufman, “Aura, Still,” October, no. 99 (2002): 47. For more on this dimension of Adorno, see Peter Burger, Theory of the Avant-Garde, trans. Michael Shaw (Minneapolis: Univer- sity of Minnesota Press, 1984), 63...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 105–121.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a German to an American or Anglophone context particularly difficult. Looking at Paradigms for a Metaphorology and The Legitimacy of the Modern Age , the article examines the timing and framing of translation, as well as the unique difficulties that Blumenberg's work poses for the modern theory reader. ©...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Theodor Adorno Walter Benjamin Paul Klee Critical Theory modernism What interests me most in this famous passage is not the “folkloristic” but the abrasive frictions, the breaks, the discontinuities of readability, the juxtaposition of narrative entities which to some extent run free from...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 107–123.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... The cornerstone of Adorno’s argument appears in the portion of Aesthetic Theory titled “Natural Beauty.” It is almost impossible not to read the Critique of Judgment as a grand effort to heal the breach between scientific rationalism and romanticism before it commences. Roughly, Kant contends...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Erhard . “ German Postcolonial Theory—was könnte das heißen? ” Lecture presented at the Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, May 21 , 2019 . Stainback Charles . Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now . New York...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2013
...John Brenkman Just as Jürgen Habermas's dialogue with Cardinal Ratzinger shifted critical theory's stance toward religion, the dialogue between Gianni Vattimo and René Girard reveals tensions within philosophy's critical appropriations of Christianity. Vattimo draws on Heidegger and hermeneutics...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 63–84.
Published: 01 August 2021
... However much he may have embraced the Frankfurt School’s hope that Marxism could be enriched through insights from psychoanalysis, here and elsewhere in his work Adorno challenged Sigmund’s Freud’s theory of sublimation to explain artistic creation. 2 What were his objections, and how plausible were...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 113–133.
Published: 01 November 2022
... it. Figure 2. Théodore Géricault, Scène de deluge (1820). Oil on canvas, 97 × 130 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photograph: Michel Urtado. © 2021 Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York. Figure 2. Théodore Géricault, Scène de deluge (1820). Oil on canvas, 97 × 130 cm. Musée du...
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