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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Kai Evers Starting from Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the openness of the future and the function of promises for political action, this essay offers a new understanding of the political pedagogy at work in The Aesthetics of Resistance . Rather than being narrated by the author’s proxy, as much...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 25–40.
Published: 01 August 2017
... persuasion such as state propaganda. In this way we can trace how mass persuasion results in political action. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 caricature satire Eduard Fuchs Marxism John Heartfield References Ades Dawn . 1986 . Photomontage . London : Thames and Hudson...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 97–112.
Published: 01 August 2013
... thesis that the freedom of political action is an affair of opinion rather than truth. In his read- ing of this text, Ronald Beiner deems it a “pessimistic thought” that politics and truth telling are distinct and can only corrupt each other.2 Beiner’s inter- pretation is not textually unfounded...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 193–215.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jonas Heller This article explores the political implications of the figure of Medea by analyzing the affinity between violence and nonviolence in her actions. A new reading of two versions of the mythical material—the apparently violent Medea in Euripides’s tragedy, and the apparently nonviolent...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
...; and his concept of a “global subject” offers a way to theorize the relation between this moral action and political intervention at the global level. In this way, thinking in constellations and mimetic practice might link individuals to different cultures and sociopolitical movements and transform moral...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 141–169.
Published: 01 February 2016
... on forgiveness to render Arendt's account of the action applicable to ethical systems and outlooks to which it is, in fact, diametrically opposed. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 reconciliation political forgiveness secular ethics historical semantics Julia Kristeva References...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 35–50.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in the marketplace as a threat to political action. Political action demands that one waste no time with grief: Brutus, having “rebuked them for their tears and useless complaints,” encourages the people in the crowd to “take up arms against those who had dared such violence” (Rise, 68). This transformation...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 27–50.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Lukas Hoffman This article explores the revolutionary politics in Else Lasker-Schüler’s early poetry, particularly focusing on her 1905 poem “Erkenntnis” (“Knowledge”). The article argues that Lasker-Schüler’s poetic revision of the biblical garden myth presents a conception of abjected...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 105–132.
Published: 01 August 2017
... the discrepancy between facts and norms is the only reliable source of political action that may spur citizens to directly engage with politics. The emphasis on direct engagement leads Haber- mas to state that “in the age of completely secularized politics, the rule of law cannot be had or maintained...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of political action, given his complicated and difficult expressions on political change and agency. By definition a negative category indicating the absence of central authority, anarchism in Benjamin’s work challenges contemporary political thought. There are many texts worth examining in relation...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 1–6.
Published: 01 November 2008
...- acterization of revolutions as inherently “modern” had to rely on a nonreli- gious understanding of political action. This was true not only of the events in eighteenth-century North America but also of those in the streets of Paris— all revolutionaries mean to put an end to the ancient world. Colonialists...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 131–161.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., model of rhetorical technization, and one that includes democratic deliberation and a productive role of the public sphere. It reduces the afformative element to only one in the political process. Rhetoric, here, may delay action or diffuse its effects to gain time for further deliberation, which yields...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 1–23.
Published: 01 August 2011
... guarantee peace and security in Europe? What are the eternal laws of political action; to what extent is the new old and the old new; what is historical necessity and individual failure; This article, and the articles by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Joshua Derman, Stefanos Geroulanos...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 77–96.
Published: 01 August 2013
... subsequent comments on Romanticism and introspection.8 Joanne Cutting-Gray, alternatively, suggests that Arendt offers a two- pronged critique of introspection and biography. First, she argues that Arendt views Varnhagen’s introspection as an impediment to political action for her as an individual...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 21–43.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on December 16, Jürgen Habermas accused the students of instrumentalizing thought and knowledge, and he suggested that their actions discredited the very political practice they aimed to ground. By preventing the department’s courses from convening, Habermas argued, the striking students were attacking...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 153–180.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Georges Sorel’s theory of social myth to be the anarchist counterpart to his own monotheistic model. Rather than seeking theological analogies for political forms of sovereignty, Sorel conceived his myth of the general strike as a coordinated image that encompasses all elements of revolutionary action...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 145–168.
Published: 01 November 2015
... from artificially exaggerating its intellectuals’ responsibility for political processes and per- ceive them as sources for specific modes of thinking, rather than initiators of political action. Fourth, a rekindled interest in the conflict constellations of the interwar years has...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 49–70.
Published: 01 August 2023
...—is then the precondition for overcoming reification and alienation by means of political action. The centrality of the middle phase in Lukács’s philosophy of social development is even more pointed than in his reflections on the novel. In this case, the alienation that comes with systematic reification—the existence...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 207–227.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., when read acutely, The Myth of the State offers a strict analysis of the expansion of the space for political action throughout history. Cassirer claims that the politics of the National Socialists entails a dangerous and excessive enlargement of the space of political experience. National...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 185–213.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Beschreibliche und das Unbeschreibliche ). Two important features link the figure of the philosophical spectator presented in those texts back to Blumenberg’s performance of theory in P&H as an attempt not to engage in political action but to reform the compromised ways of philosophy. First...