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... of perceptual standardization and the consequent devaluation of unique aesthetic experience. A comparison of the work of Friedländer, the philosopher-artist, with that of Walter Benjamin, the cultural critic, reveals the limits and the potentials in their attempts to recover and to celebrate the diversity...

... possibilities they reveal and unfold. Chief among these possibilities are the comparisons and connections between Jews and other minoritized groups articulated in this literature—and in German-language culture at large. Indeed, when it comes to Jewish culture and identity, contemporary Germany seems...

... of big Switzerland (a comparison that fatally calls to mind Orson Welles’s unflattering sentence on cuckoo clocks in The Third Man ). 22 In the Berlin Republic, the Holocaust has become, as Habermas had hoped in the 1980s, a pillar of German historical consciousness. But even the Holocaust could...

... is largely the product of our current media moment, in which rapid changes in the technology and world economy of visual images demand reflection on historical responses to comparable moments in media history, such as, for example, the cultural assimilation of printed books in the fifteenth and sixteenth...

... situated and embodied reading affect historical and cultural comparison Peter Weiss’s novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands ( The Aesthetics of Resistance , 1975–81) offers a particularly interesting case for reflections on how literature may mediate experience across historical transitions...

...Peter E. Gordon In his earlier writings and especially in his 1952 work Versuch über Wagner , Theodor W. Adorno developed a strongly critical perspective on Wagner's music, which he associated with the commodification of culture and the emergence of fascism. But in the 1956 program note to Parsifal...

...- larisierung im 19. Jahrhundert, 51–64; and Phillips, “Epistemological Distinctions and Cultural Politics.” 94. It was not Grimm but Bruno Meyer, professor of art history at the polytechnic school in Karls- ruhe, who ¥rst promoted the use of the technology within art-historical circles in German-speaking...

... as the artificiality and mise-en-scène not just of older painters like Lüpertz, Immendorff, and Kiefer but of public memorial culture in general, which, to them, fostered yet another kind of forgetting. But the intensity of their cri- tique seems significantly scaled down in comparison with that of the previous...

.... Such a contrast, though suggestive, does not alone justify a comparison of Mann with Heidegger. But beyond this shared historical context, there exists between these two figures a deep theoretical affinity, grounded in the constellations of death, temporality, and language developed, respectively, in The Magic...

... . Taubes Jacob . 2009 . Occidental Eschatology , translated by Ratmoko David . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Taubes Jacob . 2010 . “ Notes on Surrealism .” In From Cult to Culture: Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason , edited by Fonrobert Charlotte E...

... Fromm and Adorno and, thereby, on the robustness of inferences that can be drawn from these comparisons. While these labels are in some sense clearly useful abstractions that allow us to group together historically and conceptually related thinkers linked to an influential and prestigious institute...

... the Historikerstreit , the “historians’ dispute” over the question of the historical responsibility for the Holocaust, this novel represents, according to Ernestine Schlant, the “confusion and lack of moral compass inherent in a comparison of the numbness of the prisoners in the death camp and that of the perpetrator...

... 80 (2005): 143–63; and Vees-Gulani, “‘Phantomschmerzen 94 Dresden’s Visually Encoded History However, the Dresden bombing was not as exceptional as the rhetoric suggests.32 Neither its level of destruction, the late date of the air attacks, nor the city’s historical and cultural...

... as a direct response to the biologically, culturally, and historically reductive dehumanization that underlies Schmitt’s concrete order thought: “If a Negro in a white community is considered a Negro and nothing else, he loses along with his right to equality that freedom of action which is specifically human...

... their historical origins” and “are migrating into popular culture as emblematic images.” 18 By assessing superimposition and image migration among recent shifts in global memory culture in which visual memory of the Holocaust has turned into “fixed and stereotypical iconography,” 19 I tended to overlook...

... of Brecht and others that art can take possession of its own historical content for didactic purposes. It casts doubt on any philosophical appropria- tion of Hamlet as content. Adorno does describe Shakespeare as a “dialectical dramatist,” naturally implying the comparison with Brecht. However...

... and lack of historical depth often do little more than recycle the earlier U.S.-generated modernization theory of the Cold War years. Even if the West remains a power broker and “clear- inghouse” of worldwide modernities, as Gaonkar puts it, it does not offer the sole model of cultural development...

.... Indeed, he thought of philosophy itself in musical terms. Despite his well-known condemnation of commodified music as one facet of the “culture industry,” Adorno’s appeal to music’s “transcendence” betrays an The following articles were originally presented as papers at the conference “Adorno...

.... —Bruno Taut, “Japans Kunst” My two intentions in this article are to exemplify a cultural practice that complicates the received notions about modernismʼs relation with “non- Western” countries by using a theoretical framework that I call translation,1 1. For more discussion on this theory...

... character and aspectuality. By decontextualizing photographs of Nazis and reconfiguring and destabilizing how they represent time, these two projects show how Nazism and its symbols have persisted long after Nazi Germany in the cultural imagination. Both artworks thereby trenchantly critique historical...