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Marx as a Model and Question: Alexander Kluge’s Critical Inquiries

Dorothea Walzer, Mari Jarris
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908364
Published: 01 February 2020
... with Oskar Negt, this article analyzes not only various forms of questions posed in these genres but also the epistemological dimension of questioning. This perspective reveals how a Marxian model of writing becomes the point of departure for Kluge’s work on artistic method. It demonstrates that his...
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Figure 2. Winfried poses the question “Do you use hand cream?” in Toni Erdmann.

Winfried poses the question “Do you use hand cream?” in Toni Erdmann .

in Mixed Feelings: The Tragicomedy of Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann > New German Critique
Published: 01 November 2019
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Baroque out of Focus: The Question of Mediation in Wölfflin

Zeynep Çelik Alexander
New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 79–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4269862
Published: 01 February 2018
... (1864–1945) drew on the philosophical tradition of idealism as well as the questions raised by technical media at the end of the nineteenth century. The baroque appeared in Wölfflin’s writings not only as a stylistic category to be contrasted with the Renaissance but also as a surrogate...
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Carl Schmitt and the Question of the Aesthetic

Neil Levi
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 27–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-002
Published: 01 August 2007
...Neil Levi New German Critique, Inc. 2007 Carl Schmitt and the Question of the Aesthetic Neil Levi More than twenty years after his death, the works of the German jurist and political thinker Carl Schmitt seem more alive than ever...
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On Human Involution: Posthumanist Anthropology and the Question of Ecology in the Work of Hans Blumenberg and Niklas Luhmann

Hannes Bergthaller
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 83–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511883
Published: 01 August 2016
... by Sigel Irving E. Brodzinsky David M. Golinkoff Roberta M. , 87 – 95 . Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum . Westling Louise . 2006 . “Literature, the Environment, and the Question of the Posthuman.” In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism...
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Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Blumenberg and the Need for Philosophical Anthropology

Vida Pavesich
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9439643
Published: 01 February 2022
...Vida Pavesich The Anthropocene concept emerged from questions raised by scientists about whether human activity has ushered in a new and perilous geological age. The term migrated into the humanities and social sciences and now involves a proliferation of metanarratives about anthropogenic...
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Gender and Terror in Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 and Don DeLillo's “Baader-Meinhof”

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
...Karin L. Crawford This essay focuses on the relationship between ideology, language, and image to consider the question of subjectivity that is at the core of Gerhard Richter's cycle of paintings on the Red Army Faction. Through a close reading of Richter's paintings, I demonstrate how...
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Self-Injuring Body Art: Strategies of De/Subjectivation

Rosemarie Brucher
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 151–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546220
Published: 01 August 2019
...Rosemarie Brucher Abstract Artistic self-injury, established as an art form since the late 1960s, polarizes the audience and still raises questions about the motivations behind such actions as well as about the narrative contexts in which they occur. While past research has focused on either...
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The “Enormous Freedom of the Breaking Wave”: The Experience of Tradition in Benjamin between the Talmud and Kant

Ori Rotlevy
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288195
Published: 01 August 2020
...Ori Rotlevy Abstract How is freedom tied to tradition? What is the relation between the individual and the collective experience of tradition? To what extent is the experience of tradition part of a modern experience rather than only of an ancient one? This essay argues that these questions lie...
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Polytheism as Political Form: Schmitt, Cassirer, Blumenberg

André Fischer
New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 153–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10459996
Published: 01 August 2023
...André Fischer This article revisits the intersection of myth and political theology through readings of relevant texts by Carl Schmitt, Ernst Cassirer, and Hans Blumenberg. At stake is the question of whether myth can inform a concept of political polytheism that avoids the absolutist threat...
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The End of Art and the Future of Criticism in Wilhelm Worringer's Art History

Malika Maskarinec
New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 143–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3705739
Published: 01 February 2017
...Malika Maskarinec In his 1920 lecture “Künstlerische Zeitfragen” (“Artistic Questions of the Time”), the art historian Wilhelm Worringer declares the end of expressionism and the end of art. The polemical diagnosis claims that because the arts are no longer able to express a collective subjectivity...
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Cutting to the Chase: Carl Schmitt and Hans Blumenberg on Political Theology and Secularization

Pini Ifergan
New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 149–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-018
Published: 01 November 2010
...Pini Ifergan Is modernity a distinct historical epoch that can be radically distinguished from the one that preceded it? What are the implicit philosophical assumptions regarding our understanding of historical time that determine the sort of answer that we are inclined to give to this question...
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“The 62 Members of the Mickey Mouse Club”: Yearbook Impressions

Kalani Michell
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10708377
Published: 01 November 2023
...Kalani Michell This essay redirects attention to questions of reception in German-speaking contexts, instead of a limited stress on what is “produced” there. This not only affords us, German studies scholars at North American universities, an opportunity to take into account our own reception...
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European Auteurs Revisit the Western: Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys and Valeska Grisebach’s Western

Codruţa Morari
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 11–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727385
Published: 01 November 2019
... narrative into question and probe the darker sides of American expansionism. Recent returns to the western by European auteurs both revisit the classic western and revise its revisionist extensions, foregrounding experiences of sociopolitical crisis, displacement, and disintegration of values...
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Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History in the Age of the Cinema, the Network, and the Database

Sabine Haenni
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680846
Published: 01 August 2014
... in the twenty-first century by allowing us to frame in new ways research objects and research questions in the age of proliferating media platforms and proliferating archives—in the age of the network and the database. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History...
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A “Schooling of the Senses”: Post-Dada Visual Experiments in the Bauhaus Photomontages of László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt

Elizabeth Otto
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 89–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-003
Published: 01 August 2009
... photographic elements in dynamic relation to one another. While Moholy-Nagy was a prolific theorist who published frequently on the role of photography and related visual technologies in postwar society, few of Brandt's writings survive. Yet her montages address similar issues, particularly questions of how...
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Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice

Susanne Knittel
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546234
Published: 01 August 2019
..., empathetic, and ethical engagement with the past. This makes them a particularly provocative means of engaging with the figure of the perpetrator and with questions of guilt, responsibility, and agency. This article reads reenactments by Romuald Karmakar and Milo Rau as challenges to a teleological...
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At the Door of the Theater: Kafka’s Oklahama Theater and the Nature Theater Movement

Marit Grøtta
New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8809371
Published: 01 February 2021
... the conceptions of life that come into play in the novel (life as career, life as theater, life as gesture) and considers the fate of the protagonist in this light. Seeing the question of inclusion/exclusion as key to Kafka’s novel, the article argues that it exposes the thin line between utopia and dystopia...
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Adorno and the Role of Sublimation in Artistic Creativity and Cultural Redemption

Martin Jay
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 63–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989246
Published: 01 August 2021
...Martin Jay Abstract Theodor W. Adorno resisted Sigmund Freud’s explanation of artistic creation as the sublimation of the artist’s libidinal drives. It focuses too much on the artist rather than the work and is in the service of accommodation to the status quo. But Adorno also questioned the simple...
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Days of the Cavemen? Adorno, Spengler, and the Anatomy of Caesarism

Mikko Immanen
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 177–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989316
Published: 01 August 2021
...Mikko Immanen Abstract This article addresses the controversial question of Theodor W. Adorno’s debt to right-wing Zivilisationskritik by a close reading of his essay “Spengler after the Decline” (1950). The article shows that despite Adorno’s harsh polemics against Oswald Spengler’s Decline...
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