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...Lina Barouch This article examines Gershom Scholem's 1917–18 essay “On Lamentation and Dirges” in the context of his early writings on language between 1916 and 1926. During this period Scholem applauded the “silent language of lamentation” and warned of the loss of lament in a language that had...

... 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...

..., and Piano and the String Quartet from chapter 43; and by year’s end his culminating work, Dok- tor Fausti Weheklag (The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus). Adorno’s correspondence with his parents has preserved a curiously immediate glimpse into the renewed work. In the midst of a letter on January...

... that transcend the diegesis. Thematically, Dido’s song of lamentation is concerned with her own death from a broken heart over her husband’s leaving. By not using the female lead singing voice for the aria, Zacharias tones down the lament’s tragically individual dimension while retaining a sense...

... Be Turned,” Theodor W. Adorno reflected on the fate of émigrés in the United States, lamenting that their past life and their intellectual experiences are “declared non-transferable and un-naturalizable.”1 Whether true or not in the 1930s and 1940s, he raised the issue of transferability...

... . Voegelin Eric . 1952 . The New Science of Politics: An Introduction . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Weigel Sigrid . 2014 . “ The Role of Lamentation for Scholem’s Theory of Poetry and Language .” In Lament in Jewish Thought: Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Perspectives...

... concepts it seeks to reinstate against such liberal secular doctrine. Here, too, formlessness is not to be denounced; Schmitt’s stance is never that of cultural criticism, of a restorative lament, of a nostalgic yearning for past simplicity and order (a quintessentially Roman- tic aberration...

... the United States in the 1970s and 1980s and that led to a kind of American reeducation lamented by some as the closing of the American mind had more to do with the genealogy of European aesthetic modernism in relation to the modernity of the industrial and postindustrial ages than with any...

... and exhausted the German visual imagination, both East and West. Many years later, the filmmaker Werner Herzog lamented this visual deprivation of the German postwar; indeed, the New German cinema of Herzog, Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Alexander Kluge can be seen as an attempt to create...

... democratic institutions of the post-1945 period struggled to keep alive an inner desire for freedom, threatened by political apathy and expanding allures of consumerism. 17 Indeed, Spengler lamented the replacement of “the book-world, with its profusion of standpoints that compelled thought to select...

... in Germany set off an intense public debate at the Berlin Academy of Arts, in which the incongruity of the argument’s two sides became quite palpable. While the director and producer Til Schweiger expressed open disdain toward film critics by forbidding press screenings for his films, Rohrbach lamented...

... editor Harald Pauli laments, a “huge sector of ‘service reviews.’” The best and brightest no longer pursue journalism, let alone criticism, because no chance of upward mobility remains in a dying trade. To be sure, there are some particularly German aspects to this story. The demise...

... a critique of the Marxian concept of history that lamented the inability of human ideals to transcend the limits of present reality. Even Karl Marx, whose work Flechtheim revered, presumed a given social totality or final end of history that amounted to “a metaphysically contradictory utopia.” History...

..., contrary to what one would expect from Taruskin, has professed his admiration.22 Furtwängler lamented that Bach had become “today . . . indeed—as is also already the case with Beethoven—infi nitely more of an authority than a vital force [Lebensmacht]” ber Bach,” 49). This was his justifi cation...

... well understand. But the second part of your explanation, . . . to leave the DDR for the West, strikes me as politically immoral. Lamenting that their conversation had not been more constructive, Biermann offered, “In case you see any sort of possibility . . . of facilitating my vital contact...

... unbearable, disorderly living conditions. 58 This was the phrasing in the majority of the lamentations of the fall of 1945 and iterated, of course, earlier tropes of Germans as victims fighting for survival, a discourse Jeffrey Herf has traced so well.59 The conclusion of the Germans appeared to echo...

... body too” 19. To be precise, Berger compared the image with Andrea Mantegna’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1490) and with Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) in his essay “Image of Imperialism” (1967). These reflections have been reprinted many times in differ...

... not be read rationally, that is, as meaningful language, but vitally, as the graphic 9. That Worringer’s cultural diagnosis disguises a nationalist polemic is unsurprising given the enduring historical entwinement of end-of-art theses and nationalist German laments concerning the lack of, or need...

... of Scholem’s theory of lament ( “Gershom Shalom al S’fat Hakina,” 138n16 ). 30. Peter Eli Gordon emphasizes a tendency in Rosenzweig scholarship to interpret his thought in light of his biography and compellingly criticizes it ( “Rosenzweig Redux,” 11 ). Benjamin Pollock shows that the popular myth...

... reputation. He lamented Suhrkamp’s “unspecific resonance” and worried that the publisher might tamper with his manuscript to increase its salability.24 21. Quoted in Essbach, Junghegelianer, 131. 22. See Stichweh, Zur Entstehung des modernen Systems wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen, chap. 1. 23...