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Quotable Arendt: Toward a Properly Arendtian Account of Forgiveness

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Karen Pagani
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 141–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329235
Published: 01 February 2016
... in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Men in Dark Times , and The Life of the Mind . Many who discuss her account of forgiveness fail to adequately consider the distinctions and assertions that Arendt makes in her political theory. This article thus challenges a propensity in critical literature...
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The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt's Philosophical Critique of Philosophy: Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Michael Mack
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-020
Published: 01 February 2009
... forgiveness ‘moral and metaphysical’ notions of guilt to the private sphere, while criminal and political guilt alone remain public matters. The separation of German guilt into two distinct spheres, moral/metaphysical and criminal/political, gave tacit support to the so-called silent...
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Revolt against Time: Jean Améry on the Constitution of the Self

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Yaniv Feller
New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 155–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10140791
Published: 01 February 2023
[email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Jean Améry Frantz Fanon Holocaust resentment memory politics At the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, around April 2020, Germany was doing very well by comparison, and a lot of the credit was given...
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Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany

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Amir Engel
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288097
Published: 01 August 2020
... action by giving it an end to pursue and justify action by appeal to the intrinsic goodness or value of the end.” 10 The consequentialist approach to memory assumes that memory has at least some potential to generate better self-awareness for individuals and a better political future for groups...
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Nihilism and Belief in Contemporary European Thought

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John Brenkman
New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2077735
Published: 01 August 2013
... and exclusion. Habermas's recent efforts to redeem the contents of religious traditions within his secular moral-political proceduralism revive an aspect of his early work that draws on Hegel's politico-religious idea that the violent reparation of social disunity manifests the “causality of fate.” A critical...
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Gender and Terror in Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 and Don DeLillo's “Baader-Meinhof”

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Karin L. Crawford
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 207–230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-006
Published: 01 August 2009
... their narrative impulse follows an aesthetic, political, and feminist strategy aimed at resuscitating a modern mode of subjectivity. With this model of subjectivity, Richter optimistically gestures toward an open public sphere beyond the public sphere that has been compromised and marred by terrorism. A reading...
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Jewish Revenge on the German Screen

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Olivia Landry
New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 107–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11503109
Published: 01 February 2025
... feature film to explore this history. As an article in Die Zeit asserts, the lack of recognition for and representation of DIN and Kovner as part of memory culture attests to the sway of a dominant post-Holocaust German discourse that perpetually casts Jews as forgiving and reconciliatory. 23 Plan...
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“All Our Theories Are Going to Be Carried Away by History”: Alexander Mitscherlich and American Psychoanalysis

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Dagmar Herzog
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 145–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162286
Published: 01 November 2017
...-political language. Mitscherlich was also an effective public intellectual, serving as “the conscience of the nation,” a “gentle repentance-preacher.” Precisely what worked so well in the West German context was, however, anathema in America. This article explores the reasons for the depoliticized version...
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Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance

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Kai Evers
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965290
Published: 01 November 2022
... in the directives of the communist leadership, assuming its superior historical perspective. 8 Because the narrator ascribes such historical foresight, he complies in Spain with the communist leadership’s rejection of forgiveness, the other human faculty central to Arendt’s theory of political action...
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Filming Familial Secrets: Approaching and Avoiding Legacies of Nazi Perpetration

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Susanne Luhmann
New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 115–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-025
Published: 01 February 2011
...): 57–63; and Gabriele Schwab, “Haunting Legacies: Trauma in Children of Perpetrators,” Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy 7 (2004): 177–95. 7. Some examples of this literature are Niklas Frank, Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung (Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 1987); Christoph Meckel, Suchbild...
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From “German Wolfhounds” to “Ordinary People”: Characterizations of Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction

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Or Rogovin
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 65–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546167
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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Heidegger in Hebrew: Translation, Politics, Reconciliation

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Daniel Herskowitz
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 97–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6977819
Published: 01 November 2018
... work provoked by Zemach’s translation, the article examines the question of the implied ties between translation and reconciliation and the particular political, moral, and religious challenges raised by putting Heidegger’s philosophy into Hebrew, the holy language. Copyright © 2018 by New German...
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The Radicalism of the Banality of Evil: Ideology and Political Conformity in Arendt

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Shmuel Lederman
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 197–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546248
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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Introduction

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Brad Prager
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 1–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2753540
Published: 01 November 2014
... The letter was polite, but its putative author observed that the Germans still felt as though the world had done them an injustice, that they still harbored hostility toward the Jews, and that there was a risk that they would in the future be willing to follow “a Hitler or Stalin.”8 The letter...
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Shameful Exposures: Ordinary Germans and the Nazi Past in Contemporary German Documentary Film

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Axel Bangert
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2753636
Published: 01 November 2014
... was possible. The scene introduces the Holocaust as the “blind spot” in Junge’s private experi- ence, which at the time was brought about by her lack of political awareness. In addition, it suggests that in addressing a biographical record set during the Third Reich, the question “How could it happen...
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The Phenomenology of the German People's Body (Volkskörper) and the Extermination of the Jewish Body

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Boaz Neumann
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 149–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-025
Published: 01 February 2009
...Boaz Neumann While the Nazi politics of the body have been studied at length, the historiographical literature has largely failed to address the role of the Volkskörper , or the German people's body, in the Nazi worldview. As I attempt to explain, it was not the individual bodies of Germans...
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Between Dramatization and Epicization: The Portrayal of Nazi Crimes in Exemplary German Films from the Late 1940s to the 1970s

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Ursula von Keitz
New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 45–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-010
Published: 01 November 2007
... interpretation of historical events.”1 As Ulrich Gregor and Enno Patalas conclude, “Instead of providing any insight into political failure and personal guilt, forgiving and forgetting are the order of the day.”2 Staudte’s black-and-white fi lm is aesthetically closer to American fi lm noir than...
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What Can the Criminal Want after the Crime? Volker Schlöndorff's Ninth Day

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Karsten Visarius
New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 87–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-013
Published: 01 November 2007
... and political consent. Indeed, Schlöndorff’s fears about the tim- ing of his fi lm’s release reveal misgivings about the public’s capacity to distin- guish between the staging and the staged, between the role and the historical fi gure, or between (fi lm) image and reality, or at least about the public’s...
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Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance

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Kai Evers, Julia Hell, Seth Howes
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965276
Published: 01 November 2022
... shaping the ideological expectations of these protagonists and their author. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the future’s unpredictability and the function of promise and forgiveness in her theory of political action, Evers argues for a second, future-oriented pedagogical dimension at work...
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Palintropos Harmoniê : Jacob Taubes and Carl Schmitt “im liebenden Streit”

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Bruce Rosenstock
New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 55–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2398633
Published: 01 February 2014
... widely known today for his lectures on Paul’s Letter to the Romans. These lectures, delivered one month before Taubes’s death, were transcribed and published under the title Die politische Theologie des Paulus (The Political Theology of Paul).1 Besides the title’s allusion to the 1922 essay...
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