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“Half a Heart and Double Zeal”: Critical Theory's Afterlife in the United States
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 225–240.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Robert Zwarg Critical theory has had an extraordinarily productive reception in the United States, most notably in journals like Telos and New German Critique . The article, based on a larger study, sketches the American reception of the Frankfurt School as (1) an attempt to come to grips...
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The Kittler Effect
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This article traces the North American reception of “German media theory,” especially the work of Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011). The construction of Kittler's work abroad is marked by truncations and targeted appropriations related as much to the breaks and discontinuities...
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What Was Theory? Toward a Generic History
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the Cold War. This article I proposes to conceive of theory as a genre, that is, as an institution controlling the production, dissemination, and reception of texts. Drawing on the archives of the leading West German theory publishers Suhrkamp and Merve, the article follows the policies and strategies...
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Russian Exiles, New Scientific Movements, and Phenomenology: A History of Philosophical Immigrations in 1930s France
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 89–128.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and Gestalt theory; and the rise of phenomenology. It argues that German-educated Russian émigrés were central to transforming French thought, in particular a new kind of phenomenological and antifoundational realism and a new understanding of the body...
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Introduction: Transatlantic Theory Transfer: Missed Encounters?
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 1–3.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Andreas Huyssen; Anson Rabinbach © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 References Adorno Theodor W. 2005 . Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life , translated by Jephcott E. F. N. . London : Verso . Said Edward W. 1983 . “Traveling Theory...
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(Mis)reading the Market? The Publishing Business and Theory Transfer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 39–60.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., but the conditions for its success convey a notion of the
challenges smaller publishers face.
The 1970s: Theory’s “Golden Age”?
The idea of a “golden age” not just of German theory but of its reception
abroad has already been mentioned a few times in this study. Many scholars,
journals, and publishers...
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Verfehlungen : Hans Blumenberg and the United States
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 105–121.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a German to an American or Anglophone context particularly difficult. Looking at Paradigms for a Metaphorology and The Legitimacy of the Modern Age , the article examines the timing and framing of translation, as well as the unique difficulties that Blumenberg's work poses for the modern theory reader. ©...
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Narratives of Theory Transfer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 21–37.
Published: 01 November 2017
... theoretical and philosophical traditions in a
comprehensive context of reception. The international exchange of ideas, liter-
ature, and scholarship puts the question of German theory in the context of a
narration of global intellectual exchange and reception.
Therefore, before focusing on case...
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The Anonymity of Siegfried Kracauer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
... from its treatment in Kracauer's novel Ginster to the role the author ascribes to it in his correspondence with Theodor W. Adorno, to the posthumous fate of his works on both sides of the Atlantic. A comparative reception history shows the different valences of Kracauer's name in German and Anglo...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 1–9.
Published: 01 February 2022
... among the most prolific thinkers of postwar Germany. He also remains one of its most enigmatic figures and one of the last to enjoy the “transatlantic theory transfer” in which New German Critique has engaged over the last half century. 1 Compared with the reception of other members of what one...
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“The 62 Members of the Mickey Mouse Club”: Yearbook Impressions
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 133–148.
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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Worldly Possessions: Nietzsche's Texts, American Readers, and the Intimacy and Itinerancy of Ideas
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 25–50.
Published: 01 August 2011
... on the verge of dis-
covering in him “the most independent spirit of Europe and the only German
writer—That’s something8
Nietzsche could not forestall his final mental collapse long enough to
confirm his theory that these fan letters were indeed preludes to a vibrant
American reception.9 During...
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German Media Studies: A Critical Update
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 5–24.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between theory production and reception continues to disappear, new directions are emerging for transatlantic research in German media studies. 64 However, there is still the question of what, if anything, counts as “new media theory,” to borrow Eva Horn’s clever term for theoretical innovation...
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Koselleck in America
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 167–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the essays published in three volumes in the years immediately before and after his death in 2006 make apparent how these different interests are laced together in his theory of possible histories, his Historik . © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Reinhart Koselleck conceptual history time...
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Art and Emancipation: Habermas's “Die Moderne—ein unvollendetes Projekt” Reconsidered
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 203–221.
Published: 01 February 2015
... this shift—throwing into relief the emancipatory potential and limits of Habermas's thinking on aesthetics and casting new light on some of the noted limitations of Habermas's later work on communicative rationality. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 Theodor W. Adorno aesthetics Frankfurt...
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Niklas Luhmann
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 189–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the literal and figurative translation of his work in the United States and the Commonwealth. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 grand theory critical theory Frankfurt School poststructuralism References Aronowitz Stanley . 2012 . Thinking It Big: C. Wright Mills...
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Stories of Lynx; or, Husserlian Concepts in Transformation: France, 1945–1960
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 33–45.
Published: 01 November 2012
... that these concepts occupied in the philosophy of those years. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 Stories of Lynx; or, Husserlian Concepts in
Transformation: France, 1945–1960
Stefanos Geroulanos
The perplexity that reigns today at the spread of Edmund...
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Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung: On Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 55–69.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... 35, No. 2, Summer 2008
DOI 10.1215/0094033X-2008-003 © 2008 by New German Critique, Inc.
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56 Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory
relation of dialectical thinking to three petrifi ed intellectual dichotomies.
“Freedom...
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Decoding Aesop: Blumenberg’s Fabulistic Turn
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 163–183.
Published: 01 February 2022
... German postwar humanities and philosophy, the nonunderstanding of the anecdote’s underlying fable had fallen all too perfectly in line with Blumenberg’s fundamental critique of philosophy’s reliance on pure theory. In the aftermath of the 1974 colloquium, Blumenberg seems to almost have been astounded...
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Epic Solutions of the “Goethe Problem” in Lukács and Moretti
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... concludes with a coda on the aftermath of Lukács’s Faust obsession in the work of the latter-day Marxist Franco Moretti. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Georg Lukács Franco Moretti Faust genre theory form In 1967 Georg Lukács and Frank...
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