... of this analysis were Weiss’s concern with how solidarity can be forged between groups separated by geographic distance or cultural difference, and with the difference between national liberation and the more thoroughgoing emancipation Weiss described in 1965 as the “abolition of the reigning injustices...

... cosmopolitanism’s complicity in domination, this article draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno to sketch a theory of cosmopolitanism as solidarity. It argues that prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism understand solidarity as an identification of particular with universal, with pernicious political consequences...

... to as “in solidarity with metaphysics at the instant of its overthrow.” Commentary On “Amorbach” Susan H. Gillespie Theodor W. Adorno’s nostalgic essay “Amorbach” was published in 1966. It hovers affectionately over the author’s childhood recollections, including...

... the Swedish figures Ström and Rogeby near the end of the second volume feature the imagination as a force of aesthetic and political resistance respectively: whereas the narrator’s engagement with Géricault’s Raft yields a vision of common plight and solidarity in defiance of colonialist and fascist...

...Siobhan Kattago Abstract As the war in Syria and the destruction of the Calais camp in France in 2016 bitterly demonstrate, declarations of human rights and asylum devolve into empty promises without a common sense of solidarity and an implicit understanding that we share responsibility...

... and illustrated magazines that imitated the AIZ or the graphic artists who reproduced Heartfield's montages in the name of pro-Soviet sympathy and antifascist solidarity. An overlooked detail in this story is the role that Heartfield's brother Wieland Herzfelde played in expanding the reception of Heartfield's...

....” Its relevance is illustrated through examples of challenges typically overlooked in the European public sphere because they do not satisfy the easily digestible affective and political criteria of a “crisis” narrative. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 anamorphic gaze solidarity...

... of My Hiding Place” he traces an arc from his experience as a German Jew, suddenly “belonging to this other race” (11), to his understanding of art as an act of solidarity with the oppressed. Haunted by the images of a mass death he himself had escaped, Weiss became obsessed with the “experience...

..., lines of affiliations, political solidarity and alliances—all of these conceptualize different ways of building connections between Jews and other minoritized groups in the German-speaking countries. To this list I would add a concept that has been less explored but that holds much promise, due to both...

... world.” He avers: “No act and no power of the imagination suffices to put oneself in the place of a Black pit-worker, an Asian rice-farmer, or a Peruvian indio .” I consider this a very dangerous point of departure, as here Enzensberger creates the appearance of solidarity with the oppressors. Even...

...-evident. It is the prerequisite of all meaningful political work. Can it take the place of meaningful political work? Our self-declared leaders are in solidarity with the oppressed. They take a stand. We others, by contrast, sit in our five-room apartments. After all, all we do is write. Maybe...

... the traumatic instant from within and viewing it from without, that “open[s] up a space for solidarity and ethical orientation.” 31 Turning then to the imaginary debate in the novel’s second volume between Fredrik Ström and Sixten Rogeby—spokesmen for Swedish communism and social democracy, respectively...

... place, for the one and the many. “The unity of mankind and its solidarity cannot consist in a universal agreement upon one religion, or one philosophy, or one form of government, but in the faith that the manifold points to a Oneness which diversity conceals and reveals at the same time” (CW, 90...

... of mass society for Girard, a preparation for the relinquishing of the metaphysical need for divine author- ity for Vattimo. Habermas, by contrast, looks to the religious tradition for images and symbols that might translate into a secular conception of global justice and solidarity...

... and the group self. The most elaborated attempt to answer these questions—to “investigate the psychology of we-ness”—has been undertaken by Vamik Volkan. Basing his approach on Erik Erikson’s definition of core identity as comprising the subjective experience of inner sameness, he shows how solidarity...

... of dealing with the disaster because of their “spontaneous solidarity,” “luminous creativity,” “prerequisite dignity,” and “priceless vitality.” In the vocabulary of modern disaster research, the Haitian writers address the question of the vul- nerability or resilience of the community of Port-au-Prince...

... of American military personnel against a hopelessly outgunned target is the therapy still needed to remedy the lingering traumas of Hitler in the curative of the American way.5 If memory is conceived, by contrast, as a deliberate project of solidarity and antagonism, which, like Third World insur...

... to be prosecuted, may be scrutinized and judged. Finally, metaphysical guilt assumes solidarity between all human beings. The feeling of commonness and solidarity, Jaspers argue, may induce guilt even for crimes that one has no direct responsibility for. The sole arbiter for these crimes, Jaspers argues, is God...

... Emmerich Stand tall with all you’ve got, David once told me. That’s how he lived his own life, how he was when I visited him last year: still owning his indefatigable spirit and standing tall. There was so much excitement and imaginativeness, such solidarity and love in the early days of NGC when I...

... which he could write as both a socialist and a Jew. Where an “identity” is chosen or embraced, in turn, it can be extended to include the concept of “solidarity,” as Weiss shows in volume 2 of The Aesthetics . Here the narrator’s mother responds to antisemitism by saying that she, too, is Jewish...