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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Axel Bangert This article examines how documentary film in reunified Germany has engaged with the Nazi past of “ordinary Germans” and their descendants. It analyzes films produced since 1990 that portray personal views of the period, including those of World War II veterans, Hitler's secretary...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 65–89.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Browning’s work on the circumstances and mechanisms of individual and group psychology that turn “ordinary men” into mass murderers. Browning also justifies the study of perpetrators: “Explaining is not excusing; understanding is not forgiving. Not trying to understand the perpetrators in human terms would...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 99–118.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Christian Sieg This article traces Siegfried Kracauer's ethnologically inflected observations of ordinary practices and argues that his lifelong attention to the quotidian, from his newspaper articles of the 1920s to his last book, History: The Last Things before the Last , throws into relief...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 197–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
... in motivating ordinary people to become mass murderers. Instead, political conformity—namely, self-adjustment to the ruling political order simply because it is the ruling order—becomes Arendt’s main explanation for the participation of “ordinary people” in the Nazi mass murder. This shift in Arendt’s...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 93–98.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and the cinematic apparatus, and seeing film as a form of “productive thinking.” It represents a kernel of Farocki’s wish to put the tools of filmmaking into the hands of ordinary people, thus revealing both theoretical aspects of the cinematic apparatus itself and the interweaving of visual images with social...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 173–205.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of Austria and ordinary Austrians for Nazi crimes and appears not to avail itself of extensive historical research. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 Austrian history National Socialism Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 145–164.
Published: 01 February 2008
...—are subject to social infl u-
ences. Yet because he struggles to separate such ordinary forms of social infl u-
ence from “brainwashing,” he regularly expresses a sense of panic about exter-
nal influences. He understands the formation of cultural differences, for
example, through the concepts of “mental...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 83–95.
Published: 01 August 2014
... modernist inflection, emphasizing film’s truck
with contingency, indeterminacy, and endlessness, with the fortuitous, frag-
mentary, ephemeral, and ordinary” (Cinema, 254). Vernacular modernism
thus differs from what Liesl Olsen has identified as the modernist penchant for
representing and describing...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... scale at odds with the sweeping movements of
political theology. Fixed on the prospect of violent rupture with ordinary life,
Benjamin lost sight of this perspective, for the temporal origins of everyday-
ness in “homogeneous, empty time” barred the entrance of the messiah into
history...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of “the they” (das Man), toward an authentic self-
disclosure understood as embodying the structure of care (Sorge). The third
strategy seeks to dereify philosophical language by reorienting metaphysical
language toward the ordinary. This approach attempts to counter the
“bewitchment of our...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 1–19.
Published: 01 February 2009
.... The number of blog entries on Littell’s novel is
extraordinary, from those of “ordinary” readers (one blogger who identifi es herself as a young
woman and teacher kept a running diary of her reading of the novel over a period of several months:
www.lalettrine.com) to those of professionals like...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of music and the arts (and not at all a hysterical antisemite, Littell explains). As Cormay puts it: “Yesterday, the scandal was to say that the perpetrator was an ordinary man. Today the scandal is to say that the perpetrator is a brilliant intellectual.” 46 Outstanding as he is in every respect, Aue...
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 57–80.
Published: 01 February 2025
... to the “ordinary young man” ( MM , 3) from Hamburg and conjures once again the “image of life” that appeared in the midst of Castorp’s scientific musings: “There were moments when, as you ‘played king,’ you saw the intimation of a dream of love rising up out of death and this carnal body. And out of this worldwide...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 17–34.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of an individual personality
by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed
with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers
or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but
are regarded as of divine...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 35–50.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of a complex chaîne opératoire (chain of operations) and is attributed
1. According to Weber’s definition in “The Nature of Charismatic Authority” (1922), carriers of
charisma, or charismatic authority figures, are people “set apart from ordinary men and treated as
endowed with supernatural...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
... gesture as part of a popular “poetry of ordinary life.” In The Kid , as in other films by Chaplin, the actor’s body becomes for Balázs the “living material” for a gestural poetry of ordinary existence. 20 But film’s quotidian poetry also has political potential, enabling what Gertrud Koch has termed...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 141–163.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., echoing luminaries like Theodor W. Adorno and Heidegger. 10 One must grant that such high-minded reflections do seem at odds with the idea of a simplified Neudeutsch, a language whose ambitions mostly concern the everyday lives of ordinary citizens like Muhammad, Marina, or Ali. One begins to suspect...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 75–93.
Published: 01 November 2014
... groundbreaking study Raul Hilberg analyzed the
attempted extermination of the Jews as an administrative process that involved
a broad spectrum of society, each serving as cogs in a bureaucratic machin-
ery.3 Alongside those persons Hilberg describes as the “technocrats of destruc-
tion,” ordinary Germans...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 71–80.
Published: 01 November 2023
... consequences for ordinary people who adopted and modified them, putting them to new uses. Often ideas had deadly consequences for the ordinary individuals who lived them. Places at the margins of German culture invite us to explore at greater length the interstices of theory and intellectual history as well...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 1–31.
Published: 01 August 2008
... wrong note is not a performance of the
given work at all; and ordinary usage surely sanctions overlooking a few
wrong notes. But this is one of those cases where ordinary usage gets us
quickly into trouble. The innocent-seeming principle that performances dif-
fering by just one...
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