...Benjamin Robinson New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Against Memory as Justice Benjamin Robinson Reason is too large. Find me a precedent and I will accept it. —James I...

... of an aesthetics of “failure” that observes das Bilderverbot , veils a messianic vision of justice. Benjamin's gnostic picture of modernity as a bureaucratic prison house reflects Josef K.'s victimized view of his situation in The Trial . Hans Blumenberg's therapeutic account of myth suggests a view of Kafka's...

...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...

... was an urgent matter of rescue and justice, made by linking Bach’s compositions to Arnold Schoenberg’s paradigmata of a possible music through the mediation of the work-concept for which Ludwig van Beethoven was made in the tradition paradigmatically to stand. Surveying the tradition was for Adorno to tell...

... designed to guarantee just and pluralistic societies, reproduces social hierarchies of political emotions and in this way prioritizes the stability of the current system and social cohesion over justice. 33. See Sennett’s effective introductory anecdote on the symbolic divisiveness of Lily Allen’s song...

... transformation rather than blindly calling for the transformation of given limits. Pace Adorno, such natural-historical critique may clarify emerging forms of political praxis, especially those fighting for environmental justice. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024...

... tendencies, both men probed natural law as a concept for defying tyranny. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 rule of law positivism justice Jewish lawyers Social Democrats German emigrants Write and Resist: Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann on the Role of Natural Law in Fighting...

...: “Whenever, wherever, in the Western legacy, we have found ourselves engaged in the confrontation of justice and of law, of the aura of the dead and of the claims of the living, whenever, wherever, the hungry dreams of the young have collided with ‘realism’ of the age- ing, we have found ourselves...

... 105 , no. 1 : 131 . Bazyler Michael J. 2003 . Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts . New York : New York University Press . Beal Graham . 2009 . “Four Cases from One Museum, Four Different Results.” Paper presented at the Holocaust Era Assets...

..., a second nar- rative voice emerges: the voice of a survivor who was hidden on a cart and watched his father being killed, and who has had a hard time ever since owing to his “survivor guilt.” Jonas Shtrom’s statements, first to the Central Office of the State Justice Administration...

... of the historical polarity divid- ing Rome and Israel. Only a few extended treatments of Taubes’s engagement with Schmitt exist, and this essay cannot do justice to all its aspects.12 Indeed, if all I manage to do is complicate the topic, I will perhaps have achieved all I can within these confines...

... of sacrifi ce is accompanied historically by its ties to the concept of justice and with turning away from the gods and turning toward humanity. The transformation of sacrifi ce into alms implies, according to Mauss, the constitution of a community that defi nes itself by its perception of social...

... fact of the matter was that many who did not participate in crimes cared little about stopping them, regardless of their nationality. Furthermore, German civilians could justly argue that since the Allies had already brought the real criminals to justice at Nuremberg, they should be allowed to move...

... and resilience imaginable. Theodicy As symbolic form, theodicy is a metaphorical image of a court of justice. Perceived through this cognitive schema, disaster turns into a legal process negotiating the justness of God—or the justness of some other entity that can 11. Heinrich von Kleist, Werke...

... of Israel’s Supreme Court judges were educated in Germany.2 The first minister of justice, Pinchas Rosen (or Rosenblüth, 1887–1978), and the first attorney general (later a Supreme Court judge), Haim Cohn (1911–2002), were also German Jews, as were many of their assistants. While following the achieve...

... might call belated transitional justice for stolen art and its former private or public owners. The Gurlitt story was so toxic that it cast glaring light on the failures of German Vergangenheits­ aufarbeitung with regard to Nazi-looted art, its agents, its national and inter­ national networks...

.... Ancient dramas, as we now know, concluded with the restoration of the moral order. Insofar as modern tragedies confirm a moral order, Hegel says, “it is colder, more like criminal justice, owing to the greater reflectiveness of the wrong and crime into which individuals are forced when...

... and officialdom, who are unjust in the very way they exact justice; they no longer embody the renewed unity and unanimity of society, for they are opposed by a dissenting minority made up of the scapegoat’s disciples, who point out where real innocence and guilt lie and then spread the scapegoat’s...

... debated today. As the classical philologist Charles Segal notes, “No literary criticism can do full justice to the spectacle of violence that, as the chorus says, takes the form that is hardest to comprehend, a mother turning murderously upon her own children.” 2 It is important to emphasize, though...