...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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. ©...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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 could call “German theory” in America—Martin...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... by New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung: On Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Ross Wilson Resisting the coercion of accepted standards of objectivity, Adorno defends subjective experience...

... 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...

... seriousness of Weinrich and the others into the subsequent book as just another instance where reception of an anecdote prevented the contemplation of the thoughts it contains. 5 Coming from the leading figures of West German postwar humanities and philosophy, the nonunderstanding of the anecdote’s...

... the “all our theories” remark that was carried in the press. 2. Kansas City Times, “Analyst Favors.” New German Critique 132, Vol. 44, No. 3, November 2017 DOI 10.1215/0094033X-4162286  © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 145 146...

... on a “disclosive” theory of experience that may lack a critical edge. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 The Little Shopgirls Enter the Public Sphere Martin Jay In a series of eight short articles that ran in the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1927...

... interpretation, even as they sat in a bombed- out auditorium, was a testament to the production. See Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff, “National History and Theater Performance: Shakespeare on the East German Stage, 1945–1990,” in Redefi ning Shakespeare: Literary Theory and Theater Practice in the Ger man Democratic...