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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
Published: 01 February 2021
... into play an entry hitherto overlooked: the nature theater movement in the early twentieth century, promoted by the conservative Heimatkunstbewegung . Discussing the historical nature theater, on the one hand, and Benjamin’s and Agamben’s theater of gestures, on the other, the article examines...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Katharina Karcher Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Questions of (dis)ability have played a marginal role in the scholarly literature on contemporary German history and culture and the movements associated with the West German “1968.” 1 But this is changing. The emerging...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 89–128.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., undermining the then-dominant neo-Kantian idealism and its understanding of the place and role of science in philosophy and modernity. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc. 2011 Russian Exiles, New Scientific Movements, and Phenomenology: A History of Philosophical Immigrations in 1930s France...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Christoph Schaub Recent modernism studies have largely ignored the literature of the workers' movement. They perpetuate a historically influential dichotomy between modernism and workers' movement literature that can be traced back to the Weimar Republic. The article situates Anna Seghers's Revolt...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Ottmar Ette The nomadic thinking in Alexander von Humboldt's American travel journals makes them relevant in the context of global theories. As a theoretician of globalization between words, scientific fields, and worlds, Humboldt explores the dimensions and movements of knowledge through...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... Benjamin's fragment Capitalism as Religion , written in 1921, takes up certain discourses and transforms them by his own writing. Its inconsistencies (or “ungrammaticalities”) and semantic displacements institute a textual movement, which turns out to be allegorical. It thus both constructs and deconstructs...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 5–8.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jessica Benjamin This article gives a brief account of the influence of Anson Rabinbach on the work of his personal partner, Jessica Benjamin. Benjamin describes the significant points of convergence between the two thinkers' sensibilities in regard to critical theory, left-wing movements...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 41–73.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Kurt Beals The Dada movement's employment of advertising, though readily apparent and frequently noted, is often seen as a simple satire of bourgeois consumer culture, a parody that targets advertising itself. This article presents a more historically informed account of the use of advertising...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Andrés Mario Zervigón This essay investigates the little-known early film work of the German photomontagist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld in 1891). A firm opponent of World War I and an early member of Berlin's rambunctious Dada movement, Heartfield nonetheless agreed to produce...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and expressive movement and gesture shape human subjectivities within a newly mediatized social realm. The article explores Balázs’s consequent plea for a film politics of popular embodiment and asks what a survey of Balázs’s writings as both critic and theorist tell us about the political valences of his film...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... attempt to actualize the idea of world literature under the auspices of a social and political mass movement. This article develops and illustrates five theses about this internationalist world literature. It thereby sketches aspects of the history of internationalist world literature in Germany between...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 205–220.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., and the aftermath of these movements in political life, public remembrance, and historiography. The article probes Rabinbach’s particular method and significant contributions to intellectual and cultural history. Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 fascism antifascism totalitarianism Anson...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2009
... apparent contradictions between Arendt's Eichmann book and her political philosophy: one reason lies in her historiographical approach, which shifts back and forth between the metaphysical and the empirical. The article uncovers Arendt's motivation for such a seemingly contradictory movement from a purely...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 119–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Thomas O. Haakenson In the early twentieth century, the German author and philosopher Salomo Friedländer, known as Mynona and especially active in the Berlin dada movement, produced several texts that clarified and revised the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Friedländer's philosophical...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 159–196.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Peter Uwe Hohendahl Postwar discussion about university reform in West Germany revolved around Wilhelm von Humboldt's idea of the university. Right-wing critics, who wanted to block any reforms, and left-wing critics, who opposed the pragmatic reform movement of the liberals, used Humboldt's name...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 71–102.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of National Socialism and World War II, and the rise of musical “authenticism” as part of a general movement toward postwar reconstruction of an allegedly unsullied past. While there remain undeniable differences between Furtwängler's late Romanticism and Adorno's Marxist modernism, their conceptions...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 81–92.
Published: 01 November 2023
...) and Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Außer sich (which weaves the experience of a Syrian refugee in Istanbul into a web of similar migratory movements). [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 contemporary German Jewish literature similarity Katja Petrowskaja Sasha...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 125–157.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the Antideutsche movement liquidated its critical edge around the turn of the century. Bruhn drew on German leftist national self-hatred from the nineteenth century to the 1970s New Left, Moishe Postone’s theory of structural anti-Semitism from the 1970s, and the Frankfurt School’s critique of “state capitalism...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 35–55.
Published: 01 February 2017
.... During the Weimar Republic, he became a driving force behind a museum reform movement promoting a policy for arts and culture that supported the collection of contemporary art in German museums. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Gurlitt had to step down from his museum role. He started a career...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 109–133.
Published: 01 November 2012
...; during the political, juridical, and police campaign against the Red Army Faction in the 1970s; and during the state's repressive policing of antinuclear protest movements in the 1970s and 1980s. The German state confronted left dissent and violence by operating within the rule of law but developed...