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Unhappy End: Understanding Silence in Andreas Dresen’s Stilles Land
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 81–105.
Published: 01 February 2025
... of unspoken emotions and protests, preserving an essential part of what was the GDR. In its critique of GDR socialism, the film moreover aligns itself with the institutional function of theater in East Germany, which was to point to the regime’s shortcomings and evoke the horizon of its original political...
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Encountering Lateness in Postunification Berlin
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Simon Ward Berlin's material past remains obstinately visible despite the predictions of urban theorists about the “overexposed” city. What is “remembering well” in contemporary Berlin: the preservation of a particular form of the city (Berlin's Planwerk Innenstadt ) or the remembering of one...
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A Collector in a Collectivist State: Walter Benjamin’s Russian Toy Collection
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 49–78.
Published: 01 February 2018
... on contemporary criticism of ethnography, it proposes that precisely in its inability to reconstruct the context of its objects, Benjamin’s Russian toy collection becomes a site of artistic transformation rather than a forum of historical preservation. The article reads his toy collection as a critical...
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Reimagining Enlightenment: In Pursuit of Prudent Modernity
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 25–32.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the tradition of Scottish enlightenment in distinction to its French correspondent, the article endorses a convention that claims the preservation of the bond to transcendence as a moral grounding of human behavior and action, on the one hand, while approving modernity and the positive achievements...
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Pushing the Defensive Wall of the State Forward: Terrorism and Civil Liberties in Germany
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 109–133.
Published: 01 November 2012
... a “militant” or “vigilant” democracy. In pushing the “defensive wall of the state forward,” to borrow a contemporary term, the state encroached on freedom of speech and the press, the right to organize and protest, and lawyer-client relations. Whether these measures were necessary to preserve and strengthen...
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On “Amorbach”
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 215–226.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of utopia. Adorno's recollection of childhood moments of self-absorbed play preserves the lived experience in a way that forever links present and past and that also holds open a space for the experience of utopia: u-topia, no-place—a realm of imagined borderless freedom. Resonances with Amorbach...
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Adorno and the Role of Sublimation in Artistic Creativity and Cultural Redemption
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 63–84.
Published: 01 August 2021
... reversal of Freud’s formula, pointing out the dangers of unmediated desublimation. The artist, he suggested, should sublimate his or her rage instead. No less significant was the retrospective cultural sublimation of objects from exhausted devotional or cultic contexts, which preserved the unfulfilled...
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In Memory of Ernst Cassirer: Speech Delivered in Acceptance of the Kuno Fischer Prize of the University of Heidelberg, 1974
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 215–224.
Published: 01 February 2022
... a defense of his own idea of historicism, which Blumenberg understands as the claim to equal consideration by historians on the part of those eras, peoples, and subjects that may not serve present interests. Historians must be aware of the contingency of their own position and preserve the memory even...
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Habermas’s Emancipation as Lifeworldization
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 201–230.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Khagendra Prasai The most consequential distinction Habermas draws between Marx’s and his own utopia of emancipation is that societal differentiation, in the former, is dissolved into the lifeworld, whereas in the latter it is preserved as an accomplishment of and necessary for the reproduction...
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Past Lessons: Holocaust Conservation and Education in Robert Thalheim's And Along Come Tourists
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 9–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and preservation. The two
are interlinked in And Along Come Tourists through a network of information
transfer that relies on what we may loosely term strategies of fixing the past in
its place. While the preservationists of Thalheim’s film emphasize the need to
maintain the authenticity of Holocaust...
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The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg’s Political Theory
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 131–161.
Published: 01 February 2022
... the rationality of “self-preservation” embodied in scientific and technological progress. It was precisely the unbearable omnipotence of the “decisionist” God against which modernity was founded and which disqualified this structure as a model for politics. No substantial but a “linguistic secularization” had...
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Beyond Gnosticism and Magic
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of theology at the moment
of its collapse: “In relation to theology, metaphysics is not merely a histori-
cally later stage, as it is according to positivistic doctrine, not only secular-
ization of theology in the concept. It preserves theology in its critique, by
uncovering to mankind the possibility...
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We Cannot Say What the Human Is: The Problem of Anthropology in Adorno’s Philosophy of Art
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... Macdonald has argued, Adorno inverts the privilege that philosophy has traditionally granted to actuality, and in fact converges with Heidegger by “defend[ing] a version of absolute potentiality as available within our own, human experience of what is.” 46 Nonidentity preserves the possibility...
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Under Adorno's Spell: Bann as Fundamental Concept Rather Than Mere Metaphor
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 203–222.
Published: 01 November 2016
... thought, something that we can become con-
scious of and thereby dispel while preserving an otherwise laudable goal of
conceptual systematization to go along with the scientific domination of
nature. One might even view it as the imposition of an anthropological concept
having to do with primitive...
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The Metamorphic Temporality of Natural Beauty: Adorno’s Negation of Kantian Disinterested Contemplation
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
Published: 01 August 2020
... is resolutely subjective and must distance itself from the empirical characteristics of the object to preserve autonomy. The subjective nature of aesthetic pleasure is evident because Kant identifies the free play between imagination and understanding (“a merely formal purposiveness”), which refers only...
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Three Blind Mice: Goodman, McLuhan, and Adorno on the Art of Music and Listening in the Age of Global Transmission
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 1–31.
Published: 01 August 2008
... note are instances of the same work risks the consequence—
in view of the transitivity of identity—that all performances whatsoever are
of the same work. If we allow the least deviation, all assurance of work-
preservation and score-preservation is lost; for by a series of one-note...
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Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Blumenberg and the Need for Philosophical Anthropology
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... preserve a human mode of existence. Reason’s function is to “distinguish between wholesome and harmful types of myths [and to resist] the harmful ones,” 16 particularly those that promise a bypass of the absolutism of reality. For example, Paul J. Crutzen and Christian Schwägerl, buying into grandiose...
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Photography/Topography: Viewing Berlin, 1880/2000
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 25–45.
Published: 01 August 2012
...: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2006). Though not specifically about Berlin, Rudi Koshar’s studyGermany’s Tran-
sient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1998) offers...
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The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2006
... geographic appreciation of how
society was changing, yet he positioned himself very differently. If “poetic
realists” sought to preserve traditional culture virtually by cataloging it in their
fi ctions, Loos urged the rapid distribution of just those forces that promised or
threatened...
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Putting the Dialectic back in Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
... preserves its ethical authority.
Adorno’s “new categorical imperative”—to act always so as to preclude a
repetition of the Holocaust—is inextricable from its aesthetic status, or what
Bernstein terms the “material a priori” of the very “abhorrence” with which
one “sees, feels in [the victims’] agony...
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