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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
... two radically different options to reflect on the German past, guilt, responsibility, and their place in the formation of the German national future. Second, and equally important, this article aims to deepen our understanding of the intellectual debate around the memory of the Holocaust...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Sabine Haenni While promiscuity suggests a certain randomness, intellectual promiscuity implies rigor combined with randomness. This article traces Miriam Hansen's understanding of cinema as a promiscuous medium that can be approached only by adapting an intellectual and methodological promiscuity...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 125–157.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., with special attention to his intellectual inheritance from 1930s and 1940s critiques of “state capitalism” by key members of the original Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung, 1923–), commonly known as the Frankfurt School. The national self-hatred associated with the Antideutsche...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 5–14.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Detlev Claussen New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Intellectual Transfer: Theodor W. Adorno’s American Experience Detlev Claussen By the late 1960s Theodor W. Adorno had already become a kind of institution in Germany. Adorno himself...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 103–126.
Published: 01 February 2019
... Horkheimer and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and then considers the substantive correspondences and divergences between their bodies of thought. The article calls for further studies into their intellectual relationship, especially with regard to how their oeuvres may be differentially applied...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Willem Styfhals The story of the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and his disloyal student Jacob Taubes was one of continuing intellectual quarrel and personal enmity. Their intellectual disagreements centered on Jewish messianism, but the significance of this issue for Taubes’s...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Frederic Ponten Abstract This article details the brief collaboration between Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art during World War II as an intriguing episode in intellectual history, touching on film and media studies, anthropology, and German...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 205–220.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Steven E. Aschheim Abstract This article presents an exposition, analysis, and critique of Anson Rabinbach’s historical research and theses as reflected in Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History (2020), a volume of his essays on Nazism, fascism, antifascism...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 205–215.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the German Sonderweg became a stigma after 1945, the mark of the wrong turn that had led to National Socialism. Beyond these debates, the thought remains that, under the shadow of this supposedly unique destiny, Germany was a volcano of aesthetic and intellectual creativity. This article analyzes the mental...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Daniel Weidner Walter Benjamin has always been both a fascination and an obstacle for intellectual history. He seems to relate to nearly every discourse of early-twentieth-century German history, but in a peculiar, even idiosyncratic, way that makes it difficult to circumscribe his own position...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 145–168.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jens Hacke The work of the political economist Moritz Julius Bonn (1873–1965), one of the prolific intellectuals of his time, but today undeservingly forgotten, covers the main issues of political liberalism from the Kaiserreich to the Bundesrepublik. An early critic of imperialism and colonial...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 197–230.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Douglas G. Morris The advent of the Nazi regime challenged the thinking of the Jewish Social Democrats Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann. Law partners and intellectual companions in the Weimar Republic, they anguished about how to resist the new regime and justify that resistance. Nothing foretold...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 43–61.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Hent de Vries Abstract This article revisits the original meaning of “spiritual” as distinct from “intellectual” experience in Theodor W. Adorno’s late work. It does so through the implicitly Hegelian motifs in Wassily Kandinsky’s manifesto “On the Spiritual in Art,” a text that Adorno engages...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 15–48.
Published: 01 August 2022
... politics under Nazi rule, Arendt’s political thought develops as a systematic critique and response to the histories of antisemitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. After joining the Nazi Party in 1933, Schmitt endorsed the expulsion of Jewish intellectuals from Germany, celebrated the burning...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
... is precipitated by his self-Orientalizing gaze, leading him to doubt his commitment to communism. The article relates this to Weiss’s own biographical experience as a left-wing intellectual who belatedly discovered that his father was Jewish and had kept this fact a secret to evade the Nazis. However...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 215–229.
Published: 01 November 2022
... intellectuals. Although Weiss and Enzensberger do not address the relationship between politics and aesthetics directly, the introduction asks us to rethink postwar modernisms. Keeping in mind the connection between anticolonial politics and surrealism in the writings of Fanon and Aimé Césaire, the introduction...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 179–210.
Published: 01 February 2023
... broadly intellectual distance. Heschel was immersed in two worlds that soon ceased to exist: on the one hand, the universe of the Hasidic Ostjuden (Eastern European Jews), with their dynasties of learning and piety; on the other, the metropolitan, secular world of the Yiddish poets, Zionists, Bundists...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 131–152.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and usher in a “new cultural era.” The article analyzes three pivotal moments in the Orbán regime’s struggle against Lukács: a 2011 lawsuit accusing Lukács’s intellectual heirs of embezzling research money; a media takedown of Lukács, resulting in the removal of his statue from Budapest in 2017...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 181–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of modern sociability. This article argues that the sociological critique of modern therapeutic culture deploys a specific ethos of distance, which is shown through the work of Richard Sennett and Frank Furedi. Sennett and Furedi reactualize intellectual debates around the regulation of emotional exposure...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 217–224.
Published: 01 November 2023
... decolonial reckoning can offer hope of another fifty years of vibrant intellectual life in the pages of NGC . There can be no serene, untouched core of western European area studies (be it Germany or ancient Greece and Rome) to which one can happily append critiques of coloniality: these are necessarily...