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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., as he promoted cinematic physiognomics as a way to overcome boundaries of race and nation. Furthermore, Balázs and Benjamin used physiognomic perception to reconfigure social hierarchies and the relationship of spectators to technology and the material world, thus converting potentially reactionary...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 31–48.
Published: 01 August 2015
... that interrogate modernity and its prioritization of mobility and speed: first, the moral interpretation of lateness as a stigma (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann); second, the psychic view of lateness as a condition of perception (Georg Simmel, Franz Kafka, Robert Walser); and third, the psychoanalytic...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 137–153.
Published: 01 August 2015
... at this reappraisal through literary reflections of and on lateness in post-Holocaust generations, on the side of the perpetrators and the persecuted. Drawing on Marcel Beyer's Kaltenburg (2008) and Doron Rabinovici's Andernorts (2010), it explores how recent perceptions of lateness appear to be anticipated...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 91–116.
Published: 01 August 2019
... by a West German–Palestinian commando and explores historical references to the traumatic memories of the Holocaust that resonated in the public perception, cinematic depiction, and commemoration of the event. Through an analysis of newspaper coverage, documentary reports, docudrama films, and attempted...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 81–103.
Published: 01 February 2020
... borrows and departs from both László Moholy-Nagy’s urban vision and Bertolt Brecht’s conception of urban capitalist modernity, the article shows that Kluge’s film reorients time-lapse cinematography and opens up a new form of perception. By incorporating transnational techno music, the film suggests...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 51–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by scholars in countless literary studies claiming that hybrid actors and multivoiced narratives have replaced passive tales of suffering. More recent novels replace the heterogeneity and freedom of narrative agents with their experiential vulnerability and perceptions of discrimination. The central thesis...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 119–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's early-nineteenth-century work on vision. Friedländer sought to realize his philosophical revisions, in particular his understanding of the function of the Kantian imagination and its relationship to sensory perception, in his artistic parodies and short stories, or Groteske...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 119–145.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Efraim Podoksik It is a common perception that the distinction between quantitative and qualitative individualism constitutes the basis of Georg Simmel's theory of individualism. Yet, by analyzing Simmel's writings on individualism and juxtaposing them with his theory of historical understanding...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 115–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
... between the appropriation of Heimat clichés in the works of Weimar and GDR Jewish filmmakers highlight the similarities of their ambitions and self-perceptions. In particular, it suggests that in different political frameworks, Jewish filmmakers used similar means to advocate an alternative notion...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
... dimension of Disney's early shorts. Benjamin knew that the Dadaists appealed not just to the visual but to all somatic dimensions of perception—the aural, the visual, and the tactile. © 2009 by New German Critique, Inc. 2009 I offer my deepest thanks to Maria Gough for her close and perceptive...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 139–169.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of those who can actually remember presents a challenge to cultural memory and moral authority discourses. For this “post-postwar generation,” there is rightly no historical “trauma,” no personalization of guilt in relation to the Nazi past; the shift in historical perception embodies a cultural...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 89–128.
Published: 01 August 2011
... is the complementarity of quantum physics and phenomenology, which forms the ground of antifoundational realism. Quantum Physics as an Overcoming of the Old Rationalism-Realism Debate The perception that the relationship between philosophy and science had bro- ken down in the mid- to late nineteenth century...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... consultation with Beckett. The starting point is Bishop Berkeley’s formulation “Esse est percipi” (Being is perceiv- ing). Berkeley had once argued that all objects that we perceive exist only in this perception. At the moment that I leave my desk, I can no longer know whether it continues to exist...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 2020
... materials that lies outside the purview of my critical practice or personal ken? Blazing new trails of imaginative insight and what I would call proliferating sense perception since the 1960s, Kluge continues to probe complex as well as changing relationships between culture and society from many new...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 27–43.
Published: 01 August 2007
... in favor of some broader, more descriptive conceptions of the aesthetic as a mode of presentation and perception that we might see as inherent to political thought. In the last half of the essay I turn to what Schmitt himself has to say about aesthetics in the book where he also has the most...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 119–131.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ways changes the literary practice of social imagination. The structural truth of Morrison’s words, with historical amendments, also applies to public literary debates in Germany and to perceptions of what counts as German literature for the German republic and its reading publics—nationally...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
....” In so doing, Bazin contends, film cleanses the object from its “embeddedness in ordinary perception” and exposes reality without prejudices. 34 Given the above, Bazin is neither a direct realist—advocating that film should preserve the appearance of the world as accurately as it can—nor...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 65–89.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the perception of a culture from without, sound artificial and exaggerated. Dreyer mentions German order, discipline, precision, and secrecy in each of his meetings with the Judenrat, each time emphasizing the importance of a different element. The repetition produces a mechanical operation, which both empties...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 81–92.
Published: 01 November 2023
...) similarity does not refer to the property of an object but to the perceptive and cognitive processes that construe a relationship between objects; (2) this relationship is usually ephemeral, subjective, or unexpected; and (3) the perception of similarity is facilitated by proximity; if two objects are close...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
... dynamics in the films in question. More often than not, the films uncover the role of Nazi crimes in blocking or inhibiting emotional ties and familial connections. This unveiling, which, in its public exposure of private experiences, provokes shame, lays bare the relation between perceptions...