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... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Carl Schmitt Jürgen Habermas political theory reality Jürgen Habermas’s two-volume This, Too, a History of Philosophy (2019) offers a grand vista over the history of “post-metaphysical thought.” The central distinction between its two main lineages is the weight each accords historical...

...- 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...

... concludes with a coda on the aftermath of Lukács’s Faust obsession in the work of the latter-day Marxist Franco Moretti. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Georg Lukács Franco Moretti Faust genre theory form In 1967 Georg Lukács and Frank...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... ) for the reference to be effective in the present political moment. The shortcomings of a narrow understanding of political myth 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...

... 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. ©...

... 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...

.... 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...

....” 13 When Erhard Schüttpelz wrote that there is no German Postcolonial Theory 101, part of the argument was that what had primarily been read in Germany in this context derived from Anglophone and Francophone theory from discussions in our neighboring departments: “It’s about introductions to Fanon...

...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...

..., see Russell, “Strange New Beauty.” References Adorno Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory , edited by Adorno Gretel and Tiedemann Rolf , translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 1997 . Adorno Theodor W. “ Alienated Masterpiece...

...Cecilia Sebastian This article offers a transatlantic student perspective on the theory-practice debate at the center of Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse’s 1969 correspondence, famously bookended by the occupation of the Institute for Social Research in January and Adorno’s death in August...