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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 171–189.
Published: 01 August 2008
... presents himself as a religious and racial visionary.
“Nervenanhang” (nerve-contact) (14; 48) joins him with God and allows him
to discern affairs on earth hidden to others. Schreber occupies a position of
1. Page references follow the text printed in Daniel Paul Schreber, Denkwürdigkeiten eines...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 97–109.
Published: 01 August 2014
....
But because of the fleeing ephemerality of their existence, you can-
not reproach them for their mindlessness.
Even the string of a bow cannot be strained forever.
The same for the nerves.
And instants of this “releasing” . . . are just as necessary as the daily
dose...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 75–86.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to Merten Worthmann of Die Zeit, Romuald Karmakar stated that
“dealing intensively with a perpetrator always takes nerve.”1 Just what he
means by nerve becomes clear in the context of his 1995 international hit
The Death Maker, in which Götz George plays the notorious Weimar Repub-
lic serial killer...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
...: “the necessity to carry out psychology according to the scientific method and in every respect link up to the natural sciences, above all to nerve and brain physiology.” 29 Accordingly, most psychological research programs around 1900 were based on three premises: 30 every mental act, in fact consciousness...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 119–132.
Published: 01 August 2012
...
Ostrom, the party leadership’s living quarters, is the nerve center of an
ideology that is shown to have erased all signs of a subjective imagination
and creativity. Similarly, Dresden’s city center appears in the narrative’s first
half as a cheerless space that recovers a sense of urban vitality...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 11–34.
Published: 01 November 2019
... this bogus identity to create an aura of mystery and thereby gain attention. 57. See Endter, Die Verheimatlichung der Welt , 12 . References Abel Marco . “ The Cinema of Identification Gets on My Nerves: An Interview with Christian Petzold .” Cineaste 33 , no. 3 ( 2008...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 25–32.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., and the mathematician and astronomer Johann Carl Friedrich
Gauss, a monkish explorer in the monastery of his own mind, in a lucid por-
trayal laced with subtle humor.
Indeed, the inconceivable success of Die Vermessung der Welt appears to
have touched a nerve in the current zeitgeist. It seems...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
... in the “radio war,” saturating the ether to carry out a “war
on nerves.”27
Late Qing intellectuals’ conception of ether as a material but nonneu-
tral medium of ethics and affect, as well as ether’s enduring relevance in mod-
ern China to wireless technology, I would argue, gives us a glimpse...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 83–101.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., and Lukács are all candi-
dates for the fi gure of Cézanne to Simmel’s Monet), works such as The Phi-
losophy of Money seem to suffer from a failure of nerve. Simmel was unable
to push beyond phenomena—beyond the appearance of modernity—to reveal
3. See Georg Simmel, “Rodin,” in Philosophische...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 215–224.
Published: 01 February 2022
... salvatory act. What today touches a distinct nerve is the arrogance of those who simultaneously inhabit the space of a world grown narrow, the right of the firstborn claimed by those comfortable in progress over the unfortunate in need of a helping hand. In the dimension of time, it is taken...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 57–80.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., especially through the Cartesian model, to the mind—in other words, a true “mind-body entity.” The new body is alive both on the inside and outside; it is not only exterior but an interaction between inner and outer, skin and cells, senses and nerves. It brings to the surface of consciousness what Danius...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
Published: 01 February 2020
... named cunning. All these images must be reformulated anew, poetically. The heart, our faithful life’s pump, is by itself no organ of emotion but sets the steady beat for the throughflow of blood. Something next to the heart: the solar plexus. This is where the nexus of nerves is that decides between...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 105–133.
Published: 01 August 2024
... to mind the experience of the stock exchange he describes in 1896—another example of high stakes and intense focus, “In the lightning-quick calculation that transpires, [the arbitrager] must often execute a really astonishing mental calculation, so that his business belongs to the most nerve-wracking...
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2025
... an organic metaphor, he proposes that Ahasver—the Jew—must learn to become one “nerve” among others in an “organism”—society—and thereby feel the events of history in concert with all the other nerves—that is, the other members of the society to which he would now belong. 24 A brief review...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 121–149.
Published: 01 November 2006
... obscura and are refl ected in alternate visual tech-
nologies, including the photograph. For example, by focusing on specifi c nerve
energies and the internal projection of afterimages, one begins to conceive of
sensory perception as uncoupled from a necessarily external referent. Obser-
vation...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 61–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... In the fi lm Speer witnesses two horrifi c scenes, pris-
oners being beaten and bodies lying packed together on the ground in concen-
tration camp uniforms (sleeping, dying, dead Afterward the camp com-
mander offers him a glass of schnapps for his “nerves,” simultaneously offering
support...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 139–169.
Published: 01 August 2008
...—the novel’s
real counter to historical erasure. It is the protagonists’ indirect, nonemphatic
meanderings that are the hub for the novel’s portrayal of time. The nerve center
of Ein weites Feld is the resonant and circumstantial historical perception of
the East, namely, its unique identity...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
Published: 01 November 2023
... [the editors] hadn’t covered Oberammergau, Franz Josef Strauss, or Kraftwerk with the same devotion as the latest books by Habermas or the debates over feminism in Germany. . . . Lettau struck a nerve when he wrote that his major criticism of New German Critique “was its unidirectional orientation towards...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 79–93.
Published: 01 November 2011
... gifts. “The seesaw in him
appeared only occasionally: in practical jokes that got on the other’s nerves, in
hourlong spells of apathy with no cause; in transient spite, obstinacy. The older
vagabonds knew that something holy lay behind the tricks he played, that it
was no different from rolling...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 171–207.
Published: 01 November 2006
... nodes in the expanded circuitry of the organ-
ism that includes the brain: “The eye alone is not capable of sight: it is neces-
sary for vision, but there also have to be nerve fi bers that run from the retina
to the interior of the body; there also has to be a brain attached; and the brain
must...
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