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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 27–50.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Lukas Hoffman This article explores the revolutionary politics in Else Lasker-Schüler’s early poetry, particularly focusing on her 1905 poem “Erkenntnis” (“Knowledge”). The article argues that Lasker-Schüler’s poetic revision of the biblical garden myth presents a conception of abjected...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 215–229.
Published: 01 November 2022
... briefly traces the political and aesthetic significance of surrealism in Weiss’s thought and writing. 11. On Césaire’s reflections on Nazism as “supreme barbarism,” see Discourse on Colonialism , 36 . 12. On Césaire’s poetry, see OV, 44–45; see also the epigraph of the present article...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 45–66.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., which seems to be ruled by the few and founded for the many: philosophy in a reformed university will provoke and unsettle, maintaining a vital dynamism that will be translated into the language of practical revolutionary activity throughout the state. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
... to dispatched Marxist revolutionary and countercultural icon Che Guevara, who years after his death is still agitating. The reference to the severed hands recalls Guevara’s grisly fate: they were taken to confirm his identity and disposed of separately from his body. The verb wühlen (to bur- row...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
... medium’s revolutionary possibilities. As an art form that concretized and rendered visible popular experience, film could counter “the abstraction that commodifies material objects, and depersonalizes human beings as quantifiable units of labor power.” 1 I briefly explore below Balázs’s consequent plea...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... topic at the revolutionary writers’ congress held in 1930 in Kharkov, the popular front politics “coincided with a shift in focus away from cultivating young, militant, proletarian writers and toward bringing into the fold the best-known progressive authors regardless of their particular brand...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 71–99.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of revolutionary change raises difficult questions for radical Left theory and praxis in our rapidly deindustrializing world. Who or what is that working class that would redeem Lukács’s vision today? This article argues that the main concept for actualizing History and Class Consciousness is totality rather than...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 5–14.
Published: 01 February 2006
... identification with the short-lived Napoleonic empire to an almost ontological view of America as a pure bourgeois society. “La Révolution est fini” was the implicit motto of a radically bourgeois American society largely antagonistic to European traditions. Social-revolutionary critique is unthinkable...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., in that distinctive and Baudelairean sense of the term. It is the heroism of the modern poet and the big-city underworld to which he pays nightly tribute. Chance preserves the shock experience that Benjamin identi™es in Baude- laire’s urban poetry, also found in surrealist art and revolutionary theory. Shock...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... Again, as Axel Goodbody shows in his discussion of GDR nature poetry, in the 1980s, particularly, “lyric ‘Abfallandschaften’ [gar- bage landscapes] . . . were realistic descriptions and simultaneously emblems of political stagnation and individual alienation.”9 In other words, the experi- ence...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 55–92.
Published: 01 February 2014
... Eschatol­ ogy, trans. Dana Hollander (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009). All references are to the translation, hereafter cited as OE. 58  Palintropos Harmoniê mechanics of the apocalypse in which the two men embody opposing but inseparable revolutionary force vectors, one retarding...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 79–104.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Gedichten” ). The lecture focuses on Hölderlin’s hymn “The Rhine” (“Der Rhein,” 1802) and forms part of a lecture course titled “Celestial and Terrestrial Love in the Poetry of Goethe and the Romantics” (“Himmlische und irdische Liebe in Dichtungen Goethes und der Romantiker”), 1 which was specifically...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
...-centrism” that sealed Faust ’s appropriation as national heritage ( Erbe ) in the East. 8 By the 1960s Faust had been fully canonized as national poetry, with Faust’s land-gaining project regarded as an allegory of the young state’s own ambitions. 9 In contrast to the emotionally charged...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., it is a structural force in the history of Western thought that returns in Jewish, Christian, and even secular phenomena. Nonetheless, for both scholars, messianism was a paradoxical, anarchic, apocalyptic, and revolutionary phenomenon best understood from the perspective of heresy. Focusing on the role of heresy...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
Published: 01 August 2014
... it that other Hollywood, the Hollywood without the continuity veneer, that appealed to revolutionary minds of people like Kuleshov or Vertov? Miriam suggested. It was this hypothesis that set in motion Miriam’s train of thought on vernacular modernism. Vernacular modernism is a theory about film...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 125–146.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of the second, revised version of his still-unpublished essay, “Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit,” in which he argued for an overcoming of the bourgeois cult of aesthetic veneration as a prerequisite to any revolutionary aesthetics. 4 Any such advance would require...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 71–96.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., is also an account of the struggle against a civilization grounded on religious premises in favor of one beyond their claims. It would not be too much to say that Arendt placed secularization at the very center of her analysis of the revolutionary phenomenon and secularism at the core of her...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
... themes,” he critiques Benjamin’s essay for having “casually transferred the concept of the magical aura to the ‘autonomous work of art’ and casually assigned a counter-revolutionary function to the latter.” 14 Adorno counsels that Benjamin’s essay requires “ more dialectics,” such that the negative...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
... Underground, the Red Army Fac- tion, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 202, 308.   9. Benno Ohnesorg, a twenty-six-year-old student, was shot by police during a demonstration against the shah of Iran on his visit to Berlin...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 53–88.
Published: 01 August 2009
... we have understood the role of pictorial suture, and the deliberate suppression of rupture, in Heartfield's project. © 2009 by New German Critique, Inc. 2009 This essay condenses arguments from my forthcoming book Revolutionary Beauty: John Heartfield and the AIZ . My continuing thanks go...