... romantic relationships, undermining the monopoly of the love letter. Lewis and Hurley suggest that popular music and its technologies of self-production and consumption have not made good on their promise of a shared language but are inscribed instead as “technologies of gender.” Love, Popular Music...

...Eva Horn New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Eva Horn To a large extent, the history of conspiracies has been a history of media, not only...

... in process, constantly subject to reconfiguration, recombination, and reformulation. —Rick Altman Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film ( Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films , 2016), coauthored and codirected by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert, begins with a big bang. 1 A voice...

...Jeff Love; Michael Meng This article reinterprets Martin Heidegger's engagement with Nazism based on a close reading of his philosophical writings of the 1930s and the recently published “Black Notebooks.” Heidegger envisions a mythic renewing of the Greek philosophical beginning to overcome...

... do you think was his motivation for writing the poem? Genuine concern, or just love of controversy? Stern: The poem contains some valid points or opinions alongside a lot of errors. It’s a mixture of both, which I consider a real pity. Criticism of a possible Israeli...

...Bruce Rosenstock Shortly before his death, Jacob Taubes described his intellectual engagement with Carl Schmitt, beginning in the early 1950s, as one of “liebender Streit” (loving strife). This article explicates Taubes's “loving strife” with Schmitt through the lens of what Taubes called...

... sensibilities of a set of protagonists who no longer care whether they are in step with their time. In The Moment of Love ( Der Augenblick der Liebe , 2004), Final Flowering ( Angstblüte , 2006), and A Man in Love ( Ein liebender Mann , 2008), in particular, Walser presents characters who are politically...

..., therefore, reads Adorno's philosophy of culture against the grain, and it does so by focusing on a constellation of concepts: fan, fanatic, fanaticism, Schwärmerei, Begeisterung , playfulness, and love. The article attempts to salvage a notion of critical fandom in and against Adorno: to give serious...

...Annie Pfeifer Rather than establishing literary relations with Russian intellectuals or securing the affections of his Latvian love interest, Walter Benjamin spends most of his 1926–27 Soviet sojourn shopping for toys. Benjamin’s habits present an interesting counterpoint to his communist...

... these with the literary reportage style of Egon Erwin Kisch. Its similarity to Der Querschnitt reveals the dialectical engagement of Berlin’s artist and journalist circles with mass cultural forms, including tourism. While guidebooks diversified to accommodate a modern “art-loving” demographic that ridiculed both...

... of fiction—Ka-Tzetnik’s Salamandra , David Grossman’s See Under: Love , A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani —as well as more minor texts. Using theoretical work in narrative (E. M. Forster, James Phelan) and imagology (Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen on German national character), this article formulates the recent...

...Karen Pagani This article supplements the description of forgiveness in Hannah Arendt's Human Condition with an applied interpretation of love and respect, truth and opinion, and the importance of spectators or moral bystanders, as described in Between Past and Future, On Revolution, Eichmann...

... in Adorno's letters reveal subterranean links to the equally utopic experience of romantic love. The landscape near Amorbach appears again in Negative Dialectics , where its visualization is invoked as the nearest analogue to metaphysical experience. Translated into language, these lived experiences serve...

... for the subsequent overcoming (SE, 87/88). The self-enclosed self is to be trans- formed into a living soul by way of revelation of a “love as strong as death” (SE, 174/169). Once this is established, the nature of that revelation and whether Rosenzweig is using a nonmetaphysical form of time and experience...

... Andy, whom I then scarcely knew, the draft to read and asked him if I could really take Adorno to task for his rejection of therapeutic compassion when he adopted Freud’s statement that “a love that does not discriminate forfeits its own value . . . not all men are worthy of love,” adding...

.... For Honneth, the type of recognition proper to the family is unconditional love. Family members take each other’s ends as their own and seek to advance each other’s ends through mutual love and support. The family is thus an immediate prereflexive unity. In the institution of civil society, agents...

...- born will encroach on the parents’ love for the child or, even, perhaps, usurp the child all together: “The loss of his parents’ care, which he actually experi- 5. Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, ed. and trans. James Strachey (Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 1962), 60...

... of Moscow. —Brecht, Love Poems By 1939, however, it was clear that Denmark was threatened by an encroaching German military presence and an impending war and could not remain neutral much longer. 25 Brecht, Weigel, and the children, along with Steffin and Ruth Berlau, who had become Brecht’s...