... but also ensures that it may take no action on behalf of the suffering that it expresses. This analysis is then used to consider the possible status of the angel in the moment of contemporaneity, as art embraces sociality and faces a weakened autonomy. Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020...

... for his retreat into socially indifferent aestheticism. But his actual view was that art can remain art only if it is responsive to human suffering. For Adorno, it is only by virtue of its relative autonomy that art can address social suffering and sustain a critical posture toward the world. It remains...

...Michael Marder New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Minima Patientia: Reflections on the Subject of Suffering Michael Marder It is the question whether one can live after Auschwitz. This question...

... for the tainted war experience of German civilians. This article explores the tensions between the new televisuality of German suffering and the persisting charge of revisionism leveled by some journalists and scholars at the blockbuster TV docudramas. Drawing on Aleida Assmann's deconstruction of the seemingly...

... the postwar period contain vivid descriptions of German suffering, and authors gradually sought to reconcile this trauma with the crimes committed by the Germans during the war. This evidence contradicts the notion that the Germans remained silent about their own suffering after 1945 and the belief...

... that of the suffering outsider and linked to the psychologically therapeutic. Furthermore, based on an analysis of films that used Mahler's music from the 1960s on, Sacks demonstrates how the Mahler of popular imagination has often been a sound track to pathological torment and stages self-sacrificial transcendence...

... that beginning and construct an entirely new form of human society. This new beginning represents a rebellion against the Platonic-Christian-Marxist sense of knowing as making secure and of the slavish morality of palliating the cycle of human suffering by envisioning an end—an eschaton—to history. This attempt...

... powerful criticism of the philosophy of the subject. What suffers from this unintended resurgence of the philosophy of the subject, in both its liberal and its republican variants, is the radical core of constitutional democracy itself. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Jürgen Habermas...

... then to the question of whether Benjamin in fact refers to the second letter to the Corinthians or whether there are not good reasons to assume that Benjamin is closer to Cohen's thought of the messianic power of weakness than to Paul's heroic suffering. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Translated by Catharine...

...-and-after pictures of the city were important national examples of the cruelty of war toward the German civilian population and against German cultural treasures, and the photographs became iconographic images of suffering. Dresden 's plot offers a more complex view of the bombings and the city they struck...

... the wounded or broken character of musical modernism and the experience of creaturely suffering. The modernist artwork leaves behind any aesthetic of “heroism” and emerges, as if from a disaster, with bodily injuries that can never be healed. Wounded Modernism: Adorno on Wagner...

...Justin Neville Kaushall Abstract This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s concept of disinterested contemplation is inadequate because it represses the historical suffering of nature, and thus the aesthetic object’s materiality. It also argues that Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of natural beauty...

... to suffer ourselves from particular positions within societies composed of unequal positions—any claim to totality will be ideological, and thus the identity between subject and object as mediated by the concept will fail. The division of the social whole prevents any one subject from a complete view...

... and happier society than our own, Adorno soberly cautioned, art will remain the commemorative repository of past suffering, which can never be rendered beautiful, let alone redeemed or justified. Aesthetic Theory , in fact, ends with the defiant words “It would be preferable that some fine day art vanish...

... and are given the means to do this. Instead, Rosa criticizes only the forms of acceleration that cause suffering or distress or that could be characterized as pathological. I return to this last point below. As I have already mentioned, Rosa argues that his observations on temporality could and should...

...( -) or as affirmation eu( -, signifying “happinessoffers an antithesis to suffering. Its root, topos, is simply “place,” freed from desire (which it fulfills), rather than bound by it, like the “home” of nostalgic longing; a “place” still unlived-in (unlike the “site,” the primordial one being home).2...

... of the relation between universal and particular whereby cer­ tain objects and events can become orientational for rationality generally; it also involves a contention that, specifically, the sufferings of others are among those particulars that have remained unacknowledged by universalistic rea­ son...

... close (sehr . . . nahe kommen) to those who are suffering. By investigating their plight and their responses to their aggressors, we can develop an understanding of the “causes and explanations” of their suffering, which, being man-made (von Menschen in die Wege geleitet) can be challenged and changed...

... of Decolonization (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 18; Aleida Assmann, “On the (In) Compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory,” German Life and Letters 59 (2006): 196. For important work on new directions in German memory discourse since unification, see this special issue of German...

... in texts on the Shoah. The problem of aestheticization in nachschrift can be addressed using concepts developed in Aesthetic Theory, where Theodor W. Adorno argues that artworks speak for suffering without conceptualizing it and that thought’s relation to art occurs by way of a relation...