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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 215–224.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in the history of ideas before discussing how his celebrated Philosophy of Symbolic Forms led Cassirer to reappraise the problem of history more generally. Blumenberg reads Cassirer as having tried to establish the independence of history with regard to the imperatives of the present and from this derives...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
Published: 01 November 2009
... renewal. The ideas and work of a group of architects residing in the Silesian capital city, Breslau, between 1918 and 1932 demonstrate one response to the Kultur - Zivilisation dichotomy. The group included such internationally renowned architects as Max Berg, Ernst May, Hans Poelzig, Hans Scharoun...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Christopher Conti Walter Benjamin's great essay on Franz Kafka exemplifies his philosophical praxis, which exhumes the prehistoric substrate of modernity to expose the myth of progress in modernity's claim to epochal legitimacy. Benjamin's physiognomic thinking endows Kafka with the features of his...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 163–200.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and even Germanic one. It is not only the religion of the German past, Marcus claims, but also, given its faith in the intellect and in progress, the religion of the future. His ideas do not figure in the historiography of Weimar Germany. While many of the new political notions of the future that Weimar...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 59–82.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Tom Vandeputte In an unpublished fragment from the late 1930s, Walter Benjamin famously calls for a recasting of the idea of catastrophe and its relation to the progression of history. Catastrophe, Benjamin contends, is not to be understood as an exception to the regular course of history; rather...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 71–101.
Published: 01 February 2019
... by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 critique of modernity idea of progress eschatology philosophy of history Christianity The “postsecularism debate” has dominated various academic fields for over a decade now, and its core issue, the relation between modernity and religion, is still...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 223–237.
Published: 01 February 2015
... the modern, and indeed that it does so in
a way that concerns modernist ideas of progress, then in fact what we have
here is a significant list of dates. Instead of hastily deducing—as the represen-
tatives of the posthistoire thesis do—that contemporary art stands for a crisis
of progress in general...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., the object of the
natural sciences (“Idea,” 262–63). But as the progress of the essay’s argument
shows, first nature is actually a projection of second nature. The supposed laws
of competition and survival of a nature red in tooth and claw are reflections of
a capitalist modernity, not the immutable...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... idea, but blocked by the actual social circumstances that masquerade as progress. As Adorno says in his essay “Progress,” “Progress would be the very establishment of humanity in the first place, whose prospect opens up in the face of its extinction.” 54 Yet while Dialectic of Enlightenment argues...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2019
... in his engagement with radical evil, understood as the return of the “ever-same,” seeks similarly to reground the modern regime of historicity by reconstructing the underlying logic of the modern idea of progress. Its principal function is to ward off regression toward the archaic rather than advance...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 177–204.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in June 1941, Adorno reported in an often-cited letter to Horkheimer that “none of Benjamin’s works shows him closer to our own intentions. More than anything it is about the idea of history as a permanent catastrophe, the critique of progress as domination of nature, and the stance towards culture...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
... to the idea of progress, for it is precisely the Enlightenment idea of progress through the development of reason that has been challenged by the concomitant development of the forces that make possible humanity’s annihilation. The link between Enlightenment and annihilation developed in Dialectic...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 125–146.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., not least for its reliance on what he considers its naive and linear model of progress. In a letter of March 18, 1936, he writes that Benjamin is mistaken to believe that the auratic element in bourgeois modernism entails a submission to the artwork as a fetish. 6 This belief arises from Benjamin’s...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 131–161.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Benjamin, for whom “the realization of the idea of technology is a betrayal of utopia,” 76 precisely because a utopian history must break with the continuity of technological progress. Instead, Blumenberg speculates on the consequences of the principle of technicity on the existence of the state...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 159–196.
Published: 01 August 2011
... inappropriate today. (quoted in NW, 51)
Here Humboldt is emphatically rescued from Dahrendorf’s assessment as a
premodern theorist, whose ideas impede reform and progress. For Preuß, it
is Dahrendorf’s pragmatism that blocks serious progress, because it repro-
duces the very social structures Dahrendorf...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 111–154.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of figures in his late essay “Typological Motifs” (1953), the present article argues that the temporality of serial repetition provides a key to understanding the antihistoricist elements of Auerbach’s historiography, which breaks with the messianic logic of progressive fulfillment. Contextualizing...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2023
... such pessimism once animated. 34. E. V. Ilyenkov suggests that “the main fervor of neo-Kantian ‘epistemologism’ proved to be directed precisely against the idea of a scientific world outlook, of a scientific understanding of the world realized in the real sciences themselves” ( Dialectical Logic , 296...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 1–23.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of progress in history illustrates, in addition, a funda-
mental philosophical disagreement between the two thinkers. Ultimately, by
triangulating among Schiller, Hegel, and Stein, we watch some interesting
ideas in motion: ideas of history, of tragedy, of Europe and national identity,
and even...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., especially for the automobile industry, and a celebrated site of a growing middle class. As Dora Apel suggests, the city was crucial to the idea of modernist progress in an American context: “As the birthplace of the automobile and Fordism—the industrialized and standardized form of mass production...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... synthesis dependent on salvation as the meaning of history. When the Scholastic version of monotheism broke down under pressure from nominalist critiques, the expectations associated with the salvation story remained. The progress idea in the wings had been sufficiently validated by experiential success...
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