... (Ciwan) offers the hope for a forthcoming counteraddress, which I read as one path out of impossibility. This glimmer of hope in a moment of crisis also provides a powerful model for scholarship in the humanities moving forward. Rather than linger in the moment of crisis, Dschinns asks us to consider...

... of maudlin navel-gazing or in bitter lamentation of the decline of the humanities but in the hope that it is possible to sketch out and to build a more epistemically capacious field. Running a micro-experiment to demonstrate the narrow range of topics that have been thought proper to New German Critique...

... an entire generation in his films as assuming the affective force of necessary failure and, as such, utopian hope. Although individual films never offer up their utopia as “realistically” obtainable, the sensation of utopia emerging from within the itinerative serialization of one and the same problem...

.... The implications of the concept of charisma must be understood in their social, political, and—most important—affective dynamics. Writing Hitler's biography always means not only retracing the emotions, hopes, desires, and imaginations invoked by his political style but also working on the affects that he still...

... Adorno but also the culture of late capitalist modernity, which is too often still seen as, in Fredric Jameson's famous phrase, “bereft of all historicity.” In pursuing this future, Burges hopes to point toward a reinvigorated study of temporality and historicity for twenty-first-century critical...

...Marianna Papastephanou Claims, aspirations, and hopes for Europe as a postnational constellation are often based on the assumption that the European sociality, as it emerges from its public discourses, is more or less committed to a normative promise of global justice. This faith in Europe lacks...

... Biermann even after he was expelled from East Germany in 1976. This article assesses DDR PEN’s reactions to Biermann given its multiple functions as a representative of East German and Soviet bloc cultural diplomacy, an East German literary association hoping to protect some autonomous activity and free...

...Sjoerd Griffioen Abstract The contemporary “postsecularism debate” has reintroduced the problem of the relation between modernity and religion to philosophy. In this context, attention is also paid to earlier debates on secularization—notably, the Löwith-Blumenberg debate—in the hope...

... call, but one of anger and resentment. Juxtaposing these two calls for memory shows that, against every intuition, the immediate postwar period, defined by unprecedented human loss and physical devastation, was also a moment of energy and hope, while the height of the Wirtschaftswunder (economic...

... paintings take several risks, one of which is that the viewer may sympathize with the terrorists Richter portrays or may see these paintings, particularly Funeral , as redeeming them. Yet a dialectical reading that focuses on the narrative impulse of Richter's images demonstrates that the hope Richter holds...

... in 2016. 4. Kluge, Temple of the Scapegoat . 3. Adorno, Minima Moralia , 247. 2. Adelson, Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense . 1. Adorno, Negative Dialectics , 398 . For extended thoughts on Kluge’s relationship to Adorno through a legacy of counterfactual hope...

... Bloch . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Cloudcuckooland: Adorno’s Musical Utopianism Fred Rush Two disgruntled Athenians, Euelpides (Son of Good Hope) and Pisthetairos (Persuader of Comrades), tired of the ceaseless and pointless legal...

...- gories. Knowledge as a category is thus conditioned and qualified by what is This is a version of a paper, “Ernst Bloch and Aristotle’s dynámei ón: Not-Yetness, Hope, and the Prom- ise of the Universal,” given at the conference Badiou and the Incident at Antioch, University of Glasgow, February 14...

... leap forward for humanity. As Bloch says at the end of The Principle of Hope (1959): “Man everywhere is still living in pre-history. . . . True genesis is not at the beginning but at the end.”5 In this light, a linear tem- poralization of the world and of being as a closed and finished category...

.... Fromm, You Shall Be as Gods , 58 . 50. Claussen, Adorno , 6–7 ; Buck-Morss, Origin of Negative Dialectics , 61 . 51. Adorno, Negative Dialectics , 3 ; Adorno, Minima Moralia , 39 . 52. Fromm, Revolution of Hope , 11–12 . 53. Fromm, Revolution of Hope , 13...

... the elements and factors of the present or past political experience—without, however, giving up the claim to this or (what is the same thing) to adjourn it to a distant future” ( PM , 4). “Hopelessness” has a specific meaning in this passage, which introduces a polemical inversion of the concept of hope...

... of the past but the redemption [Einlösung] of past hopes.”1 It is an inscription I am content to share in these pages with another author, whose effort to recast the nostalgic-utopian element in Adorno deserves to be taken up again. To approach the subject of utopianism in Adorno without immediately...

... 1820 Privatdozent courses at the University of Berlin scheduled concurrently with those of G. W. F. Hegel. 7 If Schopenhauer had hoped that the conflicting time slots would confront potential students with the need to decide between his and Hegel’s philosophies, and thus between the good...

... of Hamletʼs ghost representing an uninterruptible continuum of history. Nonetheless, the “Otherwise” of that conversation seems to suggest that the hope of some day interrupting that continuum had not yet been entirely relinquished. In Müllerʼs literary texts of the same period, and indeed of some...

...- ter, but more justly. . . . And this being-with specters would also be, not only but also, a politics of memory, of inheritance, of generations.”11 This article cannot hope to address all these issues. Instead, it offers only a taste of the politics and aesthetics of what might be deemed...