...Julia Voss The article discusses the development of restitution politics after the Gurlitt case. First, it summarizes the events that led to Cornelius Gurlitt's will to give his collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern in May 2014. Second, it compares the handling of the Gurlitt case to previous...

...Johannes von Moltke New German Critique, Inc. 2007 Sympathy for the Devil: Cinema, History, and the Politics of Emotion Johannes von Moltke Die Psychologie der Bunker ist ein unerforschter...

... by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 Thilo Sarrazin and the Politics of Race in the Twenty-First Century Sander L. Gilman The ongoing debates about the relationship of older and contemporary uses of race in the age of modern genetics have seemingly...

... Schoenberg's approach to music itself. But it was more than a purely aesthetic issue. Each of these intellectuals claims that the Bilderverbot was central to the contemporary political struggles. In Adorno's mind, not only had the Nazis violated the ban against graven images, but Hollywood's “culture industry...

..., before it is socially divided and politically organized. No wonder such a theory emerged in a historical situation like the Weimar period, when social divisions were contested and political institutions weak or defunct. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 After Individuality: Freud’s Mass...

... ideology. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 The Politics of Longevity: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Essayism and the Art of Outliving Oneself Adrian Daub If my descendants have other tastes, I shall have ample...

....” In John Heartfield , edited by Pachnicke Peter Honnef Karl , 300 – 337 . New York : Abrams . Gross Babette . 1974 . Willi Münzenberg: A Political Biography . East Lansing : Michigan State University Press . Heartfield Gertrud Heartfield John März Roland . 1981...

... der SED; Studien und Dokumente . Berlin : Aufbau . Allertz Robert , ed. 2006 . Sänger und Souffleur: Biermann, Havemann, und die DDR . Berlin : Verlag Das Neue Berlin . Bathrick David . 1995 . The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the GDR . Lincoln : University...

... by the “truth content” of artworks. This theoretical move is meant to shed new light on how Adorno sees the relationship between art and politics. The inclusion of Adorno in the tradition of the beautiful and his portrayal as a forerunner of Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics of the sublime are flawed. In other...

... 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...

...Hubertus Buchstein Abstract This article describes debates among members of the Frankfurt School during their years in exile in the United States about the status of political institutions within their analytic frameworks. The cited unpublished material in this article sheds new light...

...John Hoffmeyer The controversial issue of Martin Heidegger’s Nazism has posed hermeneutic challenges since well before the philosopher’s death. This essay approaches the political-philosophical conflict of Heidegger’s early work not through consideration of explicitly problematic statements...

...György Túry This article examines the political reception of György Lukács and his students in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary between 2010 and 2020. It argues that Orbán’s autocratic regime has sought to systematically delegitimize Lukács’s person, thought, and legacy in an attempt to consolidate power...

...György Geréby The analysis discusses the earliest phase of the debate on political theology between Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and his former friend, the church historian and theologian Erik Peterson (1890-1960). In the 1930s Peterson challenged Schmitt's central tenet, the possibility...

... Heimat fills a gap left open in German literature since Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus by presenting a fictional portrayal of music's history after World War II. © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 Out of Tune: Music, Postwar Politics, and Edgar Reitz’s Die zweite Heimat...

...Timo Pankakoski This article analyzes the linguistic means Ernst Jünger employed to construct the relationship between war and politics in his early political writings. These include military metaphors, the topos of transferring elements from war to politics, depicting politics as the continuation...

...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...

... in the service of modern politics. Cassirer's concept of myth was inspired by the German theologian Rudolf Otto and his use of phenomenological description of the transcendent experience of the holy. © 2008 by New German Critique, Inc. 2008 The Holy as an Epistemic Category and a Political Tool: Ernst...

... Akimova Ludmila Tolstikov Vladimir Treister Mikhail . 1998 . Treasures of Troy . Milan : Leonardo Arte . Akinsha Konstantin . 2010 . “Why Can't Private Art ‘Trophies’ Go Home from the War? The Baldin-Bremen Kunsthalle Case: A Cause Célèbre of German-Russian Restitution Politics...

..., bearing the traces of multiple historical rewritings. Exploring the analytic potential of the palimpsest figure in the cultural history of the German dictatorships, Philpotts sets out to uncover two key moments of cultural-political appropriation: at the time of the Ministry's original design...