...; during the political, juridical, and police campaign against the Red Army Faction in the 1970s; and during the state's repressive policing of antinuclear protest movements in the 1970s and 1980s. The German state confronted left dissent and violence by operating within the rule of law but developed...

... Schmitt (and on Müller's own appropriations of Walter Benjamin and Antonin Artaud), however, this article argues that for Müller the state of exception had become the norm. The emergency is the everyday. Mommsen's Block therefore narrates the author's dilemma, faced with a subject he finds all...

... autobiographical moment that stages the complex childish, antiquarian, and playful dimensions of collecting more clearly than Benjamin’s later scholarly reflections. A Collector in a Collectivist State: Walter Benjamin’s Russian Toy Collection Annie Pfeifer...

... of Reality and the Theory of the State,” which appeared in May 1968. This article reconstructs that essay’s main arguments and contextualizes it in the “historical phenomenology” Blumenberg developed in his middle period. Arguing that we are witnessing a slow dissolution of the state, he suggests...

.... Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States , translated by Fort Jeff . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . de Man Paul . 1982 . Introduction to Toward an Aesthetic of Reception , by Jauss Hans Robert , translated by Bahti Timothy , vii – xxv . Minneapolis...

...Robert Zwarg Critical theory has had an extraordinarily productive reception in the United States, most notably in journals like Telos and New German Critique . The article, based on a larger study, sketches the American reception of the Frankfurt School as (1) an attempt to come to grips...

...Timothy Melley New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Brainwashed! Conspiracy Theory and Ideology in the Postwar United States Timothy Melley In September 1950, roughly three months after the start of the Korean War, the Miami News published...

...Peter Knight New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Outrageous Conspiracy Theories: Popular and Offi cial Responses to 9/11 in Germany and the United States Peter Knight Opinion polls conducted in Germany in 2003...

... to eliminate or at least deny human finitude Heidegger seeks to overcome by advancing a political agenda of embracing struggle, death, and openness. Nazism from this perspective has a potential greatness that Heidegger seeks to realize in the properly Heideggerian state, the true philosophical state, Germany...

...Yaacob Dweck This article traces the connections between Gershom Scholem and the United States. It opens with a narrative history of Scholem's visits to the United States before and after World War II and then discusses the reception of his postwar writings in the United States. Finally, it turns...

..., it considers the specific traditions in Germany and the United States. Providing statistical data, the article sheds light on success stories of transatlantic theory transfer from Germany to the United States and thus reassesses the concepts outlined in the first part. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc...

... for the world and one another. Today’s refugee crisis demonstrates that many of the problems that Hannah Arendt identified during the first half of the twentieth century are still with us. National security and the state of exception increasingly place refugees and migrants at the borders of international law...

...Lawrence M. Kaye This article examines the problems associated with the restitution of Nazi-looted art in the United States by focusing on some of the leading cases. Although some legal battles have been won by the heirs of Holocaust victims and others are ongoing, many have been unsuccessful...

... invasion in June 1941, in central Asia. Grossmann focuses on their struggle for survival and the extensive relief efforts organized in Teheran by the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and other Jewish groups from the United States, Palestine, and the British Empire. This work sustained...

..., but also society, held together by libidinal ties that Freud associated with eros. Dissolving this apparent paradox, the essay shows that, for Freud, the mass occupies the same position as the unconscious. Beyond representation and language, the mass is for Freud society in its “zero-degree” or “raw” state...

... the Zentrum, a Catholic party, was able to pursue Catholic political economy using the levers of the state, largely thanks to Heinrich Brauns, a priest who served as minister of labor throughout most of the 1920s. During the Cold War, Catholic political economy was even more influential, as it was one...

... persuasion such as state propaganda. In this way we can trace how mass persuasion results in political action. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 caricature satire Eduard Fuchs Marxism John Heartfield References Ades Dawn . 1986 . Photomontage . London : Thames and Hudson...

...Stefan Breuer The article discusses the contributions of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm) to a theory of fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, after the Institute for Social Research had moved to the United States. The discussion concentrates...

... in the vein of Strauss became pathologized and policed by critics, conductors, and state authorities, as composers lost their freedom of expression and exposure to the public. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 modernism biopolitics imperialism Richard Strauss Salome Sonderweg...

...Joe Paul Kroll This article explores the difficulties involved in theory transfer in the humanities from Germany to the English-speaking countries as they appear from the perspective of the publishing industry. Drawing on interviews with publishing professionals in Germany, the United States...