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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 205–216.
Published: 01 February 2017
... Bauman's take on identity in “liquid modernity,” this article argues that the episodic, visual, and immediate rather than narrative, verbal, and retrospective form of self-presentation online does not necessarily lead to increased self-reflection but provides the working basis for the algorithmic...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 217–224.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Mathura Umachandran Birthdays are good moments for Janus-faced self-reflection: where have we been and where might we go? This essay undertakes such a reflective enterprise from the outsider perspective of a scholar trained in classics. It apprises a critique of German studies not in the mode...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 1–25.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and more readily apparent effects of the internet and its associated technologies. In this article we offer avenues for expanding these insights. First, we believe that Simanowski’s three concepts all reflect an authenticity-based value system. The notions of an instant and episodic self critically...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Adorno's more than skeptical position toward film relies on notions of self-reflexivity usually on reserve for high art. When Stanley Cavell situates film as a reflective form of skepticism that binds camera, spectator, and image together, it comes neatly to this position. Adorno at this point does...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 153–179.
Published: 01 August 2010
...; the building's location in a city undergoing an urban renewal program; and its reception in academic, professional, and public media during the competition, after it was built, and after September 11. The shift from triumphalist to apologetic memorials during the late Cold War era reflects the growing need...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 175–198.
Published: 01 February 2013
... (1958–59) to explain the gnostic self-dissolution that is crucial to Adorno's view of aesthetic experience. In the final section Foster shows how this interpretive scheme makes possible a reading of the importance of literary autonomy in Kafka and the need to open up a space of reflection...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 149–161.
Published: 01 November 2023
... orientations; it is to situate your framework, materials, and your self in relation to each other and to reflect on what this hermeneutic constellation produces and obscures. This article argues that transparency about critical positionality is a precondition for German studies to flourish...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 203–222.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for his thought. Let us begin with the following passage, from the introduction of Negative Dialectics, where Adorno writes, “Spirit, which casts off rationalization—its Bann—ceases by virtue of its self-reflection to be the radical evil that goads it in what is other [Geist, der die...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
... moment of self-reflection in Fluchtpunkt can be seen as a foil against which to imagine the more culturally and politically coded scene of Stahlmann’s visit to Angkor Wat in volume 3 of Weiss’s roman à clef, The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–81). The only segment in this twelve-hundred-page trilogy...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 27–34.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of an ‘instant’ and ‘episodic’ self-critically imply that self-reflectiveness and self-coherence are in danger of being lost in social media communication,” which, “in turn, implies the desirability of a more real and less virtual, a more complete and less shattered, a more profound and less random self.” While...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 103–126.
Published: 01 February 2019
... itself in their responses to the task of deepening experience and consciousness. Both Fromm and Adorno operationalize the wider Frankfurt School concern with critical self-reflection, each seeing the deepening of experience and consciousness as the paramount task facing a critical theory of society...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and their intel- lectual potential in light of rapid global degradation that frames the notion of Umwelt in radically new ways—and with it the conceptualization of the human. As Chakrabarty emphasizes, globalization imposes conflicting demands on human self-reflection: on the one hand, it requires...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 179–190.
Published: 01 February 2006
... relation between seeing and judgment at the basis of the aphorism is thematized. Regression, in which we find the chance of “openness” and the experience of effusive joy and desper- ate fear as elements of reason, is a piece of self-reflection and as such a “reflec- tion from damaged life...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 181–205.
Published: 01 November 2019
... into a reflection on the status of the image itself. In these moments of contemplation on how images become thought forms in their own right, Graf’s essay films assume a self-reflexive and self-referential dimension that Sven Kramer and Thomas Tode have described as constitutive of the essay film, elucidating how...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 27–52.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a heretic in heaven.”10 Parody’s Moving Target Twain’s critique of Wagner had an alienating streak, a spinning, self-reflective moment that allowed him to expose the falseness of the audience in whose midst he uncomfortably sat. When he insisted that, in writing about Wagner or opera in general...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
Published: 01 August 2020
... to disclose needs creatively, to present his or her entire life in an ethically reflected way, and to apply universalist norms in a context-sensitive manner, can be regarded as an autonomous person.” 39 Autonomy, in Honneth’s view, is intrinsically bound up in self-reflection and the ability not only...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 63–86.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... As a result, his gar- dening guardianship of the Heimat begins to suffer (HS, 125). This develop- ment reaches its logical conclusion when he vanishes into the snow. Viewed thus, the gardener represents a moment of critical self-reflection on the fail- ure of socialism: the disappearance of his quasi...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 77–107.
Published: 01 February 2024
... meaningful subtlety. As Andersch himself emphasized with regard to Fellini, genre scenes depict social situations; a narrative element is not required for this. On the contrary, the intended sociological “study” shifts through the voice-over to a rather embarrassing self-reflection of the protagonist...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 175–201.
Published: 01 November 2016
... there less as a mere token of the rigorous pursuit of nonidentity in that later work than as the historical boundary to that project: “At the beginning of the self-emancipating modern subject’s self-reflection, that is, in Hamlet, the divergence between insight and act is paradigmatically described.”14...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 1–9.
Published: 01 February 2022
... for philosophy in 1974. One of Blumenberg’s few explicit self-reflections on his intellectual genealogy, the text gives a leading role to Ernst Cassirer and his philosophy of culture. Blumenberg both criticizes the particular execution and affirms the general impetus of this project and relates it to his own...