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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... disruptions to systems that support life on this planet. This article develops an interpretive framework drawn from Hans Blumenberg’s theories of myth and metaphor, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of history to address how Immanuel Kant’s fourth question, “What is the human being?,” has reemerged...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 1–23.
Published: 01 August 2011
... are primarily motivated by his philosophy of history. Hegel accurately sensed the loss of faith in historical progress that Schiller experienced in the wake of the French Revolution; in essays written shortly before Wallenstein appeared, Schiller associates the tragic sublime with humans' ability to act...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 175–201.
Published: 01 November 2016
... aesthetics. Adorno wants to regard Hamlet as a threshold and often refers in passing to Hamlet as the “first” or “original” individual, but such a treatment reintroduces a literary history into an aesthetic incapable of reconciling such a history to its own denunciation of all philosophies of history...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 57–69.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky In his book The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans , Giorgio Agamben states that the famous hunchbacked dwarf from Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history was none other than Paul. Unlike Agamben, Benjamin was a reader...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... theology as it plays out in his philosophy of history as well as his historical anthropology and lays a particular emphasis on the peculiar role that the figure of Judaism plays in them. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Beyond Gnosticism and Magic...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 215–224.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in the history of ideas before discussing how his celebrated Philosophy of Symbolic Forms led Cassirer to reappraise the problem of history more generally. Blumenberg reads Cassirer as having tried to establish the independence of history with regard to the imperatives of the present and from this derives...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 49–70.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Rüdiger Campe Georg Lukács’s argument of form and formation is traced from The Theory of the Novel to History and Class Consciousness , especially “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat.” The concept of form in The Theory of the Novel is compared to the contemporary philosophy...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 45–66.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of world interpretation as a precondition to action (i.e., action conforms to an immutable philosophy of history). The upshot is that Heidegger’s more radical (non-Christian, nonpalliative) world interpretation offers the proper mate- rial for a genuine revolution, once its time comes. See...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 71–101.
Published: 01 February 2019
... by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 critique of modernity idea of progress eschatology philosophy of history Christianity The “postsecularism debate” has dominated various academic fields for over a decade now, and its core issue, the relation between modernity and religion, is still...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 163–183.
Published: 01 February 2022
... for philosophy, however, with a shift from analysis to pragmatism: while metaphorology demanded, retroactively, that absolute metaphors be revisited throughout the history of philosophy to gauge the plasticity lost by philosophical language, Blumenberg’s fabulology proposes, proactively, to change philosophical...
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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 (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2009
... observational to a theoretical stance: according to Arendt, we can understand the historical implications of the Nazi genocide only if we engage in the crisscrossing of history and thought. New German Critique, Inc. 2009 The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical Critique of Philosophy: Eichmann...
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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 (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 15–48.
Published: 01 August 2022
... politics under Nazi rule, Arendt’s political thought develops as a systematic critique and response to the histories of antisemitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. After joining the Nazi Party in 1933, Schmitt endorsed the expulsion of Jewish intellectuals from Germany, celebrated the burning...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2019
... and Hartmut Rosa. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Theodor W. Adorno Hannah Arendt evil philosophy of history memory The attempt is made here to take a step along the path traced out by a recent collection edited by Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha on Theodor W. Adorno...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 119–145.
Published: 01 February 2010
... that escapes most commen- tators’ attention. To buttress this interpretation, I compare Simmel’s notion of individual- ity with some aspects of his philosophy of history. I especially focus on what Simmel considered a central epistemological problem of the philosophy of his- tory: the question...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
... Sabbatianism gnosticism secularization References Benjamin Walter . 1968 . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History .” In Illuminations , edited by Arendt Hannah , translated by Zohn Harry , 253 – 64 . New York : Schocken . Benjamin Walter . 1986 . “ Surrealism: The Last...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 109–117.
Published: 01 November 2023
... , translated by Livingston Rodney , 576. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2005 . Benjamin Walter . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History .” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections , edited by Arendt Hannah , translated by Zohn Harry , 253 – 64 . New York : Schocken...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 31–63.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the call represent the zenith of modern philosophy. This assessment is both striking and revealing, as it helps us appreciate the motivation and strategy of Strauss’s own philosophical project: insofar as Heidegger occupies this momentous status in the history of philosophy, overcoming his thought would...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of a subject who can reflect on this content as its object. 70 As Adorno proposes when discussing Benjamin’s theory in “The Actuality of Philosophy,” constellations “do not lie organically ready in history” but “must be produced by human beings and are legitimated in the last analysis alone by the fact...