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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 91–112.
Published: 01 November 2016
... earlier concerns with a critique of Husserlian phenomenology and an analysis of Wagnerian phantasmagoria. I argue that Adorno's method for radio research is phenomenological, modified to accommodate dialectics. This modified phenomenology, renamed “physiognomy,” aims to expose phantasmagoria...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Laura Heins Concerns about the passages on race and physiognomy in Béla Balázs's film theoretical writings often focus on his references to cinema's promotion of a normative “white psyche.” Through comparative analyses of Balázs with the racial physiognomist Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss as well...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 111–124.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., uniqueness, individuality, and contingency
2. Ibid., 198.
3. See Tom Gunning, “In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of
Early Film,” Modernism/Modernity 4, no. 1 (1997): 1–29; John Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physi-
ognomy (London: Whittingam, 1804); Charles Darwin...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
... , 14–21 . 19. Balázs, Der sichtbare Mensch , 185 . 20. Balázs, Der sichtbare Mensch , 193–94 . 21. Koch, “Physiognomy,” 177 . 22. One especially eloquent instance of this media-ontological account of gesture can be found in Balázs’s discussion of Conrad Veidt...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 115–132.
Published: 01 November 2011
... his thoughts. This is how the robust man was built.
But when one saw his face, one forgot all this immediately. It was hard to
tear the gaze away from his speaking physiognomy which was completely
bewitching and fascinating. His hair formed large curls on his forehead...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 143–171.
Published: 01 February 2024
... histories of physiognomic photography in Germany. In the simplest terms, physiognomy is “the science of judging people’s characters from their appearances,” and as Richard T. Gray observes, any account of this once mainstream but now marginal discourse is necessarily a history of the media used to capture...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 165–187.
Published: 01 February 2007
.... Werner, “The Detective Gaze: Edgar A. Poe, the Flâneur, and the Physiognomy of
Crime,” American Transcendental Quarterly 15 (2001): 10.
22. In “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire” Benjamin writes: “An important trait of
the real-life Baudelaire—that is, of the man committed to his work...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 85–105.
Published: 01 August 2021
... much closer to its subject than his other writings on Mahler, hence the titular concept of physiognomy in which the object’s contour is traced from a close perspective rather than as a distant prospect. 48 Perhaps physiognomy inspired an inward turn also for Adorno’s late imagination of landscape...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2020
... theories on the haptic quality of spectators’ encounters with the cinematic experience. Building on her research on the Austro-Hungarian critic, writer, and poet, Carter demonstrates the startling currency of his writings for the present moment, especially his work on physiognomy and the gestural body...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 73–89.
Published: 01 November 2016
... obstacle is the style of writing. Adorno
waxes hermeneutic in the preface to the second edition, brought out just three
years later, where he announces that his aim is to enter into Mahler’s musical
10. Physiognomy is a concept Adorno uses in other contexts both positively and negatively...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 25–40.
Published: 01 August 2017
... by stirring up irrational hatred.
49. Illustrierter Beobachter was published in Munich from 1926 to 1945 under Hermann Esser.
50. Here the caricaturist Philipp “Fips” Rupprecht often relied on physiognomy to reinforce racial
stereotypes, in stark contradiction to the methods of Heartfield, who...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
... ), a feature that readily evokes Nazi racial stereotypes of supposed Jewish physiognomy for the German-speaking reader. 13 It is less obvious that when Stahlmann imagines his own reflection in the eyes of the ancient Khmer statues and fantasizes that he is one of them, he becomes associatively linked...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 5–26.
Published: 01 November 2016
... : Suhrkamp . ———. 1974 . Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life , translated by Jephcott E. F. N. . London : Verso . ———. 1993 . Hegel: Three Studies , translated by Nicholsen Shierry Weber . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . ———. 1996 . Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 5–14.
Published: 01 February 2006
... was reprinted as “Television as
Ideology” in Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, trans. Henry W. Pickford (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 59–70.
14 Adorno’s American Experience
to keep alive the remembrance of the conditions that had given him his intel-
lectual physiognomy...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 69–97.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to the idea of physiognomy. One of the things that characterizes Jünger’s work across virtually the entirety of his career is his desire to make things visible through what he called “the will to form [ der Wille zur Gestalt ].” The phrase appears as the title of an essay published in Widerstand in 1929...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Berliners have become so accustomed to the reconstruction in the different parts of the city that we are not even conscious of the fact that its whole physiognomy is being radically transformed.” 13 West German films of the era by and large reinforced this general inattention to radical structural...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of a New Type of Human Being,” 462 . 59. Honneth, “Physiognomy of the Capitalist Form of Life,” 56 . 60. Honneth et al., Reification , 45–46, 57, 62–63 . 61. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory , 73 (hereafter cited as AT ). 62. Adorno, History and Freedom , 125 . 63...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 87–100.
Published: 01 November 2007
... brings to both roles the same striking physiognomy; the same
angular, almost emaciated face with prominent cheekbones and mouth mus-
cles; the same deep-set eyes with their large, almost black pupils, his perfor-
mances could not be more different. The Goebbels of Downfall is like an empty
shell...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., Schmölders
investigates the visual components of charisma in German leader figures from
George, Paul von Hindenburg, and Hitler.19 Physiognomy, the art of deduc-
ing an individual’s character from facial features, is an old technique whose
heyday was at the end of the eighteenth century...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
Published: 01 August 2015
...
of origin is 1940 is demonstrated by the use of this date as the first point of reference on those maps
that show the development of Berlin’s street networks. See Hans Stimmann, The City in Black: The
Physiognomy of Central Berlin in Figure-Ground Plans and Parcel Plans, 1940–2010 (Berlin:
Nicolai...
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