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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Artemy Magun This article discusses the relationship between two philosophies of the twentieth century: those of Theodor W. Adorno and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Both authors emphasize the notion of mimesis and see it as an ontological and an epistemological category and as the site...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... an unexamined alternative to philosophical anthropology’s revival. A reconstruction of Adorno’s position shows how Adorno displaces anthropological problems into his philosophy of art, where the principle of mimesis offers a potentially nonanthropological model of human potential. Yet it also reveals how...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 111–154.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Michael McGillen The historiographical status of Erich Auerbach’s theory of figural interpretation, which he develops in “Figura” (1938) and Mimesis (1946), is complex. In its insistence on the fundamental historicity of its objects—of both the figure and its fulfillment—it carries forth...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2021
.... 2021 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing aesthetics eighteenth century mimesis Laocoön Whence the narrow constipation of a strictly human attitude, the magisterial look of the face with a closed mouth , as beautiful as a safe. —Georges Bataille, “Mouth” The scream of the Laocoön statue...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 141–163.
Published: 01 February 2007
...). In the culture industry’s parodic mimesis of reconciliation, this undominated nature is made to resurface so it can again be seen as that which must be repressed. Thus the culture industry forces the masses to desire their own repression and reifi cation through its mimesis of a subject and object...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
... related to practice beyond opposition to the state and society as they exist? That is, how can this particularity be translated into a subject-generating practice? (2) What is political about this subject? We can begin to answer these questions by examining Adorno’s concept of mimesis...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. dialectics enlightenment cunning mimesis negativity Writing in the preface to Dialektik der Aufklärung in May 1944, Max...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 99–118.
Published: 01 February 2010
... real- ism, Mimesis, he claims that fi lm is the realistic medium par excellence, since it tends to explore the “resilient texture” of everyday life, “this matrix of all other modes of reality.”7 Here Kracauer emphasizes once again the signifi - cance of the ordinary. However, the nexus between...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... through mimesis, not through an increasing distance from the object” (DE, 7). Magic is a “bloody untruth” that deifies the natural. It needs to submit to rea- son, to be sure, but while myth is less bloody—in its drive toward abstraction and regularization, it escapes the fierce literalism of magic...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 93–112.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... Things drifting had become something lasting, freestanding, and if it possessed any realism, that was because we were suddenly touched by it, moved. ( AoR , 1:305–6; ÄdW , 1:347–48) Both the creator of art and the recipient are here involved in a process that can be characterized as a mimesis...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of innervation largely depends on the specific reading of “mimesis” given in critical theory.14 Mimesis here has less to do with visual resemblance than with a “becoming like” relation, a form of experience, of relating to and engaging the external world in which the distinction between subject...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 85–108.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of reifi cation, and Benjamin’s of mimesis and constellation stimulated Adorno in signifi cant ways. To this should be added Adorno’s careful reading of Sig- mund Freud; his lifelong intensive concern with the “languages” of art, espe- cially music; his critical continuation and rethinking of idealist...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
Published: 01 August 2021
... course: mimesis, natural beauty, art as enigma, and the linguistic character of all art. Nonetheless, form clearly remains the organizing center of Wesche’s reconstruction of Adorno’s aesthetic theory: “The aesthetics of autonomy in Adorno stands or falls with his concept of aesthetic form” ( WA , 162...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 67–96.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Oberfläche mit dem Ozean die vollkommene Kugel. Abgründe wären dann eine Episode gewesen) (my translation). 91. Blumenberg, “Relationship,” 313 . On the relationship of imitation and invention in Renaissance art theory, including Leonardo, see Kemp, “From Mimesis.” 90. Blumenberg...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 139–154.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . ———. 2010 . “Mimesis and the Aesthetics of Musical Expression.” Music Analysis 29 , nos. 3 : 126 – 48 . Tiedemann Rolf . 1997 . “Concept, Image, Name: On Adorno's Utopia of Knowledge.” In The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory , edited by Huhn Tom...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135.
Published: 01 February 2006
.... When viewed in the larger context of Adorno’s work, his word Nachkonstruk­ tion is negatively charged in that it conjures a form of mimesis that he generally abhorred: the direct, reflective, and reproductive kind. As he argues through­ out Aesthetic Theory, what he wishes for in the work of art...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 39–72.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and behaviourist psychology, physiological aesthetics, and acting theory, in particular the Soviet avant-garde discourse of biomechanics” ( CE , 140). Like Susan Buck-Morss, who similarly notes how Benjamin’s “theories of mimesis and innervation . . . resonate intriguingly with discussions of biorhythmics...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of mimesis or imitation is not to be “repressed” but “maintained in the objectivation of the tension between itself and its antithesis” ( AT , 153). “Absolute construction” refers to this autonomous shaping of the material through technical manipulation, whereby the empirical object is not negated...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 203–221.
Published: 01 February 2015
...: Consciousness-Raising or Rescuing Critique,” trans. Freder- ick G. Lawrence, in Philosophical-Political Profiles(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983), 144. 22. See also Richard Wolin, “Utopia, Mimesis, and Reconciliation: A Redemptive Critique of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory,” Representations, no. 32 (1990...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., Martin Jay argues that it is precisely the “historical hopes, which despite everything Adorno never lost, that most distinguish his meditations” from postmod- ernist defenses of “an endlessly oscillating mimesis that . . . steadfastly resists ontological stability, subjective integrity...