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A Natural History of Modernity: Bernhard Grzimek and the Globalization of Environmental Kulturkritik
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
Published: 01 August 2016
... ruminations about human aggression and environmental destruction. Grzimek portrayed both the zoo and the national park as compensation for a “great extinction” that linked the industrialized slaughterhouse in Europe to trophy hunting in Africa. This natural history of modernity envisioned a global nature...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Max Pensky Abstract Theodor W. Adorno’s claim in Aesthetic Theory that artworks have a truth content, and that this truth content in turn depends on philosophical interpretation, is among the work’s most challenging and obscure claims. This article argues that “The Idea of Natural History...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 69–97.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Andrew McCann This essay sets out an approach to Theodor Adorno’s rearticulation of the idea of natural history that foregrounds the undecidable relationship between symbol and allegory. This relationship is the structural condition of Ernst Jünger’s writing, from his protofascist journalism...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 99–123.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Johannes Wankhammer This article revisits Adorno’s concept of “natural history” to propose an alternative to the exhausted paradigm of denaturalizing critique. As Jonathan Crary’s work on the ruination of sleep illustrates, the reflex to denounce natural limits as ideological constructs falls short...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and the Concept of Life .” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 19 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 113 – 27 . Pensky Max . “ Natural History: The Life and Afterlife of a Concept in Adorno .” Critical Horizons 5 , no. 1 ( 2004 ): 227 – 58 . Ray Gene . “ Reading the Lisbon Earthquake...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 85–105.
Published: 01 August 2021
... on landscape, alienation, and song. Throughout the recurrences of the trope of landscape in Adorno’s writings before Aesthetic Theory , the philosophy of nature and history and experiences of tourism and exile constellate into an aesthetic that contemplates sublimity and kitsch side by side: modernist...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 101–129.
Published: 01 August 2023
... in History and Class Consciousness , this article shows that there is nothing wrong with categorically separating society and nature. A careful analysis of Lukács’s little-known manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic demonstrates that “ontological monism” and “methodological dualism” are unique to his...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
...-Holsteinische Geschichte, “Schleswig-Holstein
von A bis Z,” www.geschichte-s-h.de/vonabisz/sturmflut.htm (accessed January 20, 2012).
27. Blackbourn, Conquest of Nature, 3.
28. Meier, “Sturmfluten”; Niemeyer, Eiben, and Rohde, “History and Heritage,” 7.
160 Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
... not be protested, since it
was, in a sense, logical, destined, or even natural. In this woman’s fantasy of
German history, Anne Frank is the “wrong” victim, a conception of the Holo-
caust that implies that the victimization of others was somehow correct.
The fantasy of the “wrong” victim that Adorno...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 81–95.
Published: 01 August 2015
... own aesthetic requirements and demands, a way to reflect on the nature of cinema, and, most challenging of all, a form of temporal experience characterized by a sense of things passing. Drawing on these functions, the article traces connections between photography and cinema to shift our understanding...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and Scholem’s thought also reveals a deep intellectual affinity that both were unwilling to face. This article shows how Scholem and Taubes had a surprisingly similar understanding of the nature of messianism, though not its scope. For Scholem, messianism remains a strictly Jewish phenomenon; for Taubes...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2009
...
is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared
to prosecution and judges alike as not much more than the most horrible
pogrom in Jewish history. (E, 267)
By focusing on the particularity of the victims, the Jerusalem court, in Arendt’s
view, distorts the crime’s...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997); DE = Dialectic of Enlighten
ment, trans. E. F. N. Jephcott (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002); HF = History and
Freedom: Lectures, 1964–5, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Cambridge: Polity, 2006); “Idea” = “The
Idea of Natural History,” trans...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2006
... critical commentary. This is surprising, given that it shares
common topoi with the other main texts contemporary with it, namely, “The
Actuality of Philosophy” (1931) and “The Idea of Natural-History” (1932).
At the same time, problems that continue to occupy Adorno throughout his
career can...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
...). Precisely because humans lack “pre-cultural . . . nature” and are open to history, Adorno insisted that it is “impossible” to “say what the human is” (SWM, 226, 228). 2 Through this debate a key tension in Adorno’s thought emerges. If Adorno asserts that the human is a fundamentally “historical being...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2019
... and Hartmut Rosa. References Adorno Theodor W. “ The Idea of Natural History .” Telos , no. 60 ( 1984 ): 111 – 24 . Adorno Theodor W. Lectures on Negative Dialectics: Fragments of a Lecture Course, 1965/1966 , translated by Livingstone Rodney . Cambridge : Polity , 2008...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 159–178.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of literature to a theory of the political, and from philosophical
issues to questions of ethics in a world after Auschwitz. In suggesting that we
link Adorno’s engagement with tropes of nature to larger questions of history
and aesthetics, I argue that Adorno stages, rather than explains, concepts...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2023
... for the vindication of Darwinian evolutionary theory—the theory that Marx himself had called, despite its still nascent form, “in the field of natural history . . . the basis for our views.” 2 Engels’s Dialectics of Nature manuscripts, unfinished and unpublished in his lifetime, outlined what Darwin and his...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 9–30.
Published: 01 August 2010
... he
terms “the natural history of destruction.” The latter notion is, without ques-
tion, strangely at odds with Sebald’s own call for a dispassionate chronicle
of “real conditions.”25 For all his insistence on soberly attending to signs of
violence, Sebald’s natural history of destruction...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 169–189.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., especially the concepts of the aura, mimesis, natural history, and instrumental reason. In addition, the aesthetic, in particular natural beauty, is underwritten, like most of Adorno’s work, by a strong Freudian component of somatic impulses to which the subjective intellectual processes correspond. (See...
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