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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 93–112.
Published: 01 November 2022
... situated and embodied reading affect historical and cultural comparison Peter Weiss’s novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands ( The Aesthetics of Resistance , 1975–81) offers a particularly interesting case for reflections on how literature may mediate experience across historical transitions...
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Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 27–43.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of the capacities
for transcendence embodied in the emergency situation. The latter, which
Schmitt characterizes as “more interesting than the rule,” thereby receives a
quasi-aestheticist justification.18
18. Wolin, “Carl Schmitt,” 434. See also Richard Wolin, “Carl Schmitt, Political...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 149–161.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the subjective factors that have driven my choice of text as well as my mode of reading? What might be the value of an embodied, affect-driven hermeneutics in German studies? What would a critique look like that allowed—even momentarily—for the frightening, joyous, transformative reciprocity between critic...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of witticisms by means of an arithmetical progression of decomposition [ Zerlegung ]. . . . Systematic disputation is the rule governing the series. 26 I offer here three attempts to make Benjamin’s image of tradition concrete through the reading of such sources. Each one embodies, in my reading...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 77–100.
Published: 01 August 2006
... as an anticipation of socialism.
Finally, and most important, Wangenheimʼs use of Hamlet as allegory
for the GDR and his association of Shakespeare and socialism embodied the
empire—even, during the Nazi era, as a Nordic hero struggling to revenge his people. Heiner O.
Zimmermann offers a concise...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 11–39.
Published: 01 February 2022
... a body, demonstrating time and again where implicit and informal rules were too important to allow artificial knowing to take off. 32 He claimed that embodied human intelligence is “being-in-a-situation,” a variant on Heidegger’s notion of “being-in-the-world.” Computers, he wrote...
FIGURES
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 103–128.
Published: 01 February 2023
... it is ephemeral” ( SW , 2.1:204). At first blush, this statement seems to situate the performance squarely within the realm reserved for the collective body, which is temporally bound to a historical moment and context, as opposed to the corporal substance, which embodies the eternal, transhistorical creative...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., L’éthique de la psychanalyse (Paris: Seuil, 1986), v, 79.
58. Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger, Art, and Politics, 105–7.
138 Negativity (Dis)embodied
posthumous archive, and I had a chance to read them.59 Starting in the same
period, Lacoue-Labarthe works on Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of a melancholic resistance of meaning. But I suggest that this resistance can be construed in terms of Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's readings of analogous resistance in Charles Baudelaire's poetry, which restages the social destruction of the subject as a socially normative “poetic event” unto itself...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of rational identity. 59 Taking influence from the psychoanalytic symptom and Marxian commodity form, Adorno reads embodied suffering as signs of dehumanization that do not require a positive definition of the human. If the human can be conceptualized only at the point of its resistance to society’s...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2006
... in relation to these
three, still regnant, schools of linguistic philosophy.17 Reading the “Theses”
permits a test of Adorno’s own concept of “configurative language” or “con-
stellation”; to begin interpreting this difficult text it is necessary, as alluded to
above, to situate it in relation...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 175–198.
Published: 01 February 2013
... is actually a histori-
cal situation, in which aesthetic experience has, for various complex reasons,
come to isolate itself from society. But this leaves his reading unable to dis-
lodge the rigid dichotomy between mere regurgitation of culture and the self-
referentiality of literature that, ultimately...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 119–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
... by a
philosophical challenge to modern empirical sense physiology made possi-
ble by Friedländer’s unique reading of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s early-
nineteenth-century work on vision. Situated in its proper historical and intel-
lectual context, Friedländer’s early-twentieth-century corpus thus should...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 57–80.
Published: 01 February 2025
... in their correct place the humanistic artifacts of a bygone era. Of course, we can read such an overarching metaphor into it. Yet we should not overlook the world of The Magic Mountain , its wordy flesh, as it were, which meticulously dramatizes, stages, and explores embodiment in its resolutely singular and rich...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 65–92.
Published: 01 February 2013
... is point-
ing toward is a horror of becoming obsolete, of turning into a passé person
This article has benefited enormously from readings by and comments from Mike Benveniste,
Heather Houser, Noel Jackson, Lee Konstantinou, John Peterson, Joe Shapiro, and Michelle Ste-
phens. At New German Critique...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 171–207.
Published: 01 November 2006
... but graphomania.
Fascinated by the vast textual corpus produced by his protagonists, Döb-
lin assumed the dual role of psychiatrist and literary critic. It was a role for
which the physician and author was uniquely suited. He situated the letters at
the core of Two Friends and liberally integrated...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 111–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... bulk with which it fills the
screen, the judge’s body testifies to the corporeality of Law, its necessary
embodiment within discrete representatives.8 The law with which we are so
abruptly confronted is situated, limited, all too human. It has a front and a
back. It has taken off its hat...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2011
... as a possible answer to the questions raised by the “empty place of power” in modernity (Claude Lefort) after the demise of the political theology of monarchy. Weber's theory of charisma can be read as a synthesis of two discourses, which both react to the downfall of the king. On the one hand, Weber takes up...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 89–128.
Published: 01 August 2011
... Press of Florida, 1993). In his more recent work Plotnitsky has
situated Bohr between Hegel and Kant, ultimately reading him closer to Kant: The Knowable and the
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understand the atom, the physicist needs to complement wave computations...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 63–84.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in these terms, see Huhn, “Sublimation of Culture in Adorno’s Aesthetics.” 45. Marcuse, Eros and Civilization , 190 . 46. Goebel, Beyond Discontent , 224 . 47. Bersani, Freudian Body , 48–49 . For another suggestive reading of sublimation, which draws on the work of Julia Kristeva...
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