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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2017
...) continued to engage Kittler, the bulk of the reception took
place elsewhere.
Why? The simple answer is that Kittler’s voyage took place when the
traditional transatlantic theory currents changed direction. His interdisciplin-
ary shift from literature to media coincided with an intradisciplinary...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 1–3.
Published: 01 November 2017
... authors whose
work was translated to an extent but failed to leave traces in the intellectual life
of this country. Instead, we wanted to focus on the more complicated cases
where there was reception, but perhaps not as intense as one might have imag-
ined or hoped for—thus the question mark after...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 25–50.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., “Reading Is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical,
Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor,” Book Research Quarterly 2 (1986): 7–29.
On the trope of readership as eatership, see Steven Mailloux, “The Use and Abuse of Fiction: Readers
Eating Books,” in Reception...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 21–37.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Theory and Criticism.” Kenyon Review 25 , no. 3 : 169 – 87 . John Eileen Lopes Dominic , eds. 2004 . Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings; An Anthology . Malden, MA : Blackwell . Leitch Vincent B. , ed. 2010 . The Norton Anthology of Theory...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 39–60.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... As the case studies presented in this special issue show, there is
also the factor of time to consider: how long before a thinker is translated, and
then what interval between translation and reception—if reception takes place
For inspiration and information, I am grateful to Katharina Bensch...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Kai Evers; Julia Hell; Seth Howes In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 203–221.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., as yet, a similar reconsidera-
tion of the nature of the aesthetic and its relation to reason.”4 While Habermas
himself has, since that time, offered further commentary on the nature of the
aesthetic, only a relatively small body of secondary literature has addressed
the role of aesthetics in his...
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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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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... genre considered most “classical” and said to have become impossible in modernity: the epic poem. Goethe’s reception in East and West Germany after the war, leading up to the pivotal Goethe bicentennial in 1949, 5 is thoroughly documented, and it is well known that Lukács’s take on Goethe played...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 61–82.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Yaacob Dweck This article traces the connections between Gershom Scholem and the United States. It opens with a narrative history of Scholem's visits to the United States before and after World War II and then discusses the reception of his postwar writings in the United States. Finally, it turns...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Johannes von Moltke This article investigates the role of names, naming, and anonymity in the career and reception history of Siegfried Kracauer. A signature motif of his life and writings, the notion of anonymity is ambivalent, signaling both invisibility and success. The article traces this motif...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 131–152.
Published: 01 August 2023
...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...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 77–100.
Published: 01 August 2006
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literature, simulta neously severing East Germany from the Nazi past, which
now belonged to the bourgeois period of decline and hence to the West, and
giving the newly founded socialist state an immediate history and justifi ca-
tion. Concomitant with the enthusiastically affi rmative reception...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 1–9.
Published: 01 February 2022
... philosophiques 123 , no. 4 ( 2010 ): 101 – 9 . Trierweiler Denis . “ Un autisme de la réception: À propos de la traduction de la ‘Légitimité des temps modernes’ de Hans Blumenberg en France .” Esprit 24 , no. 6 ( 2000 ): 51 – 62 . Vowinckel Annette . “ ‘Ich fürchte mich vor den...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the most famous texts referring to tradition in rabbinic literature. The first two chapters of tractate Avot in the Mishnah (known in English also as “The Sayings of the Fathers”) are commonly understood as presenting a chain of tradition, of kabbalah and mesira , of reception and transmission...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 189–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Luhmann), among others. Although part of the
Anglophone literature on Luhmann, the reception of British work seems to
have more resonance in the Commonwealth and on the European continent
than it does in the United States. The volume Luhmann Observed (2013), edited
by Anders la Cour and Andreas...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 103–128.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Tyson E. Lewis This article contributes to the growing literature on Walter Benjamin as an educational philosopher. In particular, it reassesses the claim made by prominent Benjaminian scholars that education can be defined as a form of awakening. To further develop this central educational claim...
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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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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in favor of descriptions of violence in young adult literature (YAL) was advanced by Roald Dahl, one of the founding fathers of the genre. In the late 1970s, more than a decade prior to Amis’s novel, Dahl contested the prevailing ideas of pedagogical theory, namely, that sadistic impulses should be tamed...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 95–114.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of self-fashioning.
Now, as with all questions of intellectual precursorship, we need to bear
in mind three central tenets of reception theory: that tradition does not per-
9. Letter to Thomas Mann, September 8, 1945, “Aus dem Briefwechsel Thomas Mann—Emil
Preetorius,” ed. Hans Wysling...
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