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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 97–130.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Richard Westerman Georg Lukács's concept of reification is celebrated for its account of how capitalist society affects individual subjectivity. However, even its admirers have rejected the way that Lukács uses this idea to argue that the proletariat can develop a revolutionary class...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 67–98.
Published: 01 August 2018
... animated objects into their narrative worlds. Inspired by cinema, these literary animations trace out complex social relations among humans and things and challenge the powers of reification that Theodor W. Adorno and others more typically identify with Odradek and related figures in Kafka’s writings...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of reification, which is defended against Honneth’s definition of this concept. Based on an interpretation of passages in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Adorno’s notion of “working through the past,” the article claims that reification should be understood as a forgetting...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 175–203.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Richard Westerman Abstract Interpretations of Georg Lukács’s theory of reification and consciousness have typically assumed that Lukács relies on an essentialized notion of subjectivity that can be restored by dereification. This article argues instead that he treats subjectivity as a formally...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 5–26.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a characteristically dialectical response to nominalism, applauding its subversion of categorical reifications, but alarmed by its indiscriminate leveling of the distinction between concept and object, which could also efface the distinction between works of art and everyday objects. In musical terms, he appreciated...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 103–126.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of Fromm’s and Adorno’s specific uses of Marx. The theme of reification and the related concern with consciousness that Lukács explicitly brought back to Marxist thought is evident in both Fromm and Adorno, even if it is actualized along different paths. The term reification is notably absent from Fromm’s...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of anthropological thinking, second- and third-generation critical theorists have reestablished the first generation’s critique of philosophies of progress on anthropological grounds. Axel Honneth’s recent work on reification, for example, develops Adorno’s notion of mimesis into an anthropological claim...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 125–146.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to commodification. The aura is therefore a dialectical concept that implies both liberation and capitulation. Adorno is even willing to entertain the thought that the aura signifies something like the “good” moment in reification, or Verdinglichung , a proposal that would have struck a Marxist theorist...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 53–72.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the technical conditions of radio trans-
mission, and the second, the complex contradictions between radio’s enhanced
immediacy and presence, on the one hand, and its reproduction and reification,
on the other. The first set of observations includes extended discussions of
music’s various modes...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
.... They are born of reification and its divisions. As it turns out,
gnosticism’s truth is obscured by its tendency to fall for the chief optical illu-
sion of Verdinglichkeit, the notion that second nature is in fact all there is of
nature. Freed from this illusion, gnosticism’s protest becomes valid...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 91–112.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and classified like a collection of precious objects. The
reification of thinking is registered in Husserl’s image-like characterization of
the philosophy of consciousness. Adorno charges Husserl with “interpret[ing]
thinking not as action but as looking at things, that is, quietly facing them like...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of philosophy is understood as a metanarrative of forgetting
and, by extension, reification, insofar as philosophy has translated the “non-
identical” into a static, representational relation between subject and object.15
There is, of course, a third alternative: the one presented by the author...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 14–16.
Published: 01 August 2014
... encounter with complex
disjunctive and nonlinear temporalities, where the present is experienced as
discontinuous and open to the future, and forces of reification are countered
dynamically with “play.”
This subject is also buffeted by contradictory and countervailing forces:
alienation...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 15–30.
Published: 01 February 2006
...,” “the decision in which the
individual subject chooses itself as its own possession. The subject, the con-
cept of which was once created in contrast to reification, thus becomes reified”
(115).24 Here, significantly, Adorno seized on the root meaning of Eigentlich
keit rather than Echtheit; apparently...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Postone, Time , 123–225 ; Lukács, “Reification,” 83–86 . 32. Behrendt, Die einheitliche Blockfront , 14 (hereafter cited as B ). 33. Pfeifer, “Kontrast und Rhythmus,” 98 . 34. Eberstadt, Handbuch des Wohnungswesens , 62 , as cited in Bernet, “‘Hobrecht Plan’ (1862),” 410...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., vanishes, and indeed cannot be read for its meaning” ( AT , 81). All the phenomena of a heaven beyond nature offer nothing beyond themselves because they are always already both disappearing and failing. They are resolutely constructed, shedding the bourgeois reification of art, while also resisting...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 225–240.
Published: 01 November 2017
... theory of reification to obliterate
the bourgeoisie.13
Contrary to this evaluation, however, the report concluded: “Most people left
with a general feeling that a conference dealing with theoretical problems
might be a good idea! After creeping down the runway for four days, the owl...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 43–61.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of reification that makes them self-same, self-identical. Otherwise one could not speak of their spirit, that is, of what is utterly unthinglike [ schlechterdings Undingliches ]. Spirit is not simply spiritus , the breath that animates the work as a phenomenon; spirit is as much the force or the interior...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of the world promoted by it.88 If, as Heiko
Christians suggests, modern physiognomics responds to diagnoses of the dis-
ease of reification in modernity by proposing a regeneration through the con-
crete,89 then any childlike ability to see noninstrumentally should have value
for Marxist efforts...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 179–190.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., and, on realizing they were
still alive, made off in haste” (MM, 200). The “moral” that the mature Adorno
draws from the abiding musical happiness of childhood is that eccentricity
is necessary for reason; as though reason, for the sake of its own concept and
in order to resist its own reification...
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