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“The Primacy of the Object”: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory and the Return of Form

Eva Geulen
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989204
Published: 01 August 2021
... an antidote to current all-inclusive conceptualizations of form. References Adorno Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory , translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . London : Bloomsbury , 2013 . Adorno Theodor W. Aesthetics, 1958/59 , translated by Hoban Wieland . Cambridge : Polity...
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Criteria of Tragic Form: Toward a Reconstruction of Lukács’s Earliest Critical Theory

Kirk Wetters
New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10459912
Published: 01 August 2023
... of comparison for his later and better-known works, especially in Soul and Form (1911), The Theory of the Novel (1916), and History and Class Consciousness (1923). This framework can reconnect Lukács’s early theory of literary genres to contemporary debates on form in literature, epistemology, and political...
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Spectator and Society: Lukács, Riegl, and the Phenomenology of the Individual Subject

Richard Westerman
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 175–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6977861
Published: 01 November 2018
... defined position within the totality of consciousness, an account of consciousness that closely parallels Alois Riegl’s theory of the spectator as a formally defined component of works of art. Both Lukács and Riegl incorporate notions of agency and active involvement in the forms of representation...
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“The Most Profound Confirmation of the Existence of a Dissonance”: Émile Boutroux, Georg Simmel, and Lukács’s Theory of the Novel , with an Outlook to History and Class Consciousness

Rüdiger Campe
New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 49–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10459940
Published: 01 August 2023
...Rüdiger Campe Georg Lukács’s argument of form and formation is traced from The Theory of the Novel to History and Class Consciousness , especially “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat.” The concept of form in The Theory of the Novel is compared to the contemporary philosophy...
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Adorno's Symphonic Space-Time and Beethoven's Time Travel in Space

Daniel K. L. Chua
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 113–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3625397
Published: 01 November 2016
...Daniel K. L. Chua Theodor W. Adorno's “theory of the symphony” is modeled on Beethoven's heroic symphonies; these works form the basis for Adorno's arguments against the broadcast of symphonies on radio. A “radio symphony,” he claims, is not the same as the real thing and fails to deliver the true...
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Mimetic Rationality: Adorno's Project of a Language of Philosophy

Harro Müller
New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 85–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-012
Published: 01 November 2009
..., coordinating method of proceeding takes account of the considera- tion “that man is no creator, that nothing human is creation” (“Essay as Form,” 165). All his life Adorno wrote essays, experiments. His aphorisms are minia- ture essays; Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory are books composed...
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Introduction

Eva Horn
New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1340012
Published: 01 November 2011
... tensions in Weber's theory of charisma, this article points to the essentially aesthetic aspects of charisma. As a form of leadership, charisma not only fundamentally depends on the imaginations and affects that the charismatic leader can raise in the hearts and minds of his followers; it also depends...
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Franz Rosenzweig, Richard Wagner, and the Sacred Theater of the Day of Atonement

Ido Ben Harush
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 49–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734805
Published: 01 August 2022
...Ido Ben Harush This article deals with the mark of Richard Wagner on Franz Rosenzweig’s account of the Day of Atonement service in Der Stern der Erlösung . It exposes the presence of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde , his theory of Gesamtkunstwerk , and particularly his theory of gesture in Rosenzweig’s...
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Uneasy Pleasing: Film as Mass Art

Gertrud Koch
New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-011
Published: 01 November 2009
..., in which linguistic and cultural heterogeneity generate as much for culture as they fi nd there. “What is this humor?” Cavell asks in an essay about wordplay and the Marx Brothers’ relationship to language: If we take Bergson’s theory of comedy as bespeaking a form of madness, of men...
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Georg Simmel: Three Forms of Individualism and Historical Understanding

Efraim Podoksik
New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 119–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-020
Published: 01 February 2010
... by realism, most certainly by the natural- istic form of realism, earlier espoused by Simmel himself. The theory that it is easier to understand great individualities runs counter to the theory of latent inheritances. The latter states that re-creation is possible because the observer and the observed...
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Talking to Miriam: Soviet Americanitis and the Vernacular Modernism Thesis

Yuri Tsivian
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680936
Published: 01 August 2014
... to show longer? What to show next and what to show again? Such questions may sound simple, yet thinking about them made Americans look for medium-specific explanations that, taken together, formed the earliest theory of editing found in the film trade Figure 3.  El Lissitzky, Tatlin at Work (1922...
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Erich Auerbach and the Seriality of the Figure

Michael McGillen
New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 111–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4269874
Published: 01 February 2018
... Auerbach’s theory of the figure in relation to the historiographical innovations of Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, the revival of seriality in modernist aesthetics, and the narrative forms of twentieth-century literature, it argues that Auerbach’s work was shaped more significantly by modernist aesthetics...
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The Poetic Power of Theory

Alexander Kluge, Leslie A. Adelson
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908350
Published: 01 February 2020
... of differentiation, and the poetic power of theory operates as a political alliance out of which emancipation of any kind becomes subjectively possible, without being subjectively controlled. What twenty-first-century forms of theoretical practice, sensory intelligence, and storytelling allow for the courage...
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Tremor, Tick, and Trance: Siegfried Kracauer and Gregory Bateson in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art

Frederic Ponten
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 141–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908420
Published: 01 February 2020
... studies. The article presents the Frankfurt School as part of the 1940s’ memorandum culture and thereby attempts to situate the historiography of critical theory during this formative period within a broader intellectual landscape, that is, in dialogue and competition with several other projects...
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Reification and the Duty to Work Through the Past: On Critical Theory and Temporality

Mathijs Peters
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288153
Published: 01 August 2020
...). This brings us to the social and critical aspects of Rosa’s theory, which follow from his observation that there is a paradox between the first and third forms of acceleration he discerns. If technological processes go faster, and more machines are developed to do things that human beings used to do at a much...
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Natural History and Aesthetic Truth in Aesthetic Theory

Max Pensky
New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8989218
Published: 01 August 2021
..., with some differences. The motivating question here focuses on Adorno’s insistence in Aesthetic Theory that artworks bear a distinctive form of insight. This privileged insight discloses objective conditions about reality that, but for artistic truth, remain cloaked and inaccessible, and that the release...
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A Well-Tempered Modernist

Colin Lang
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 41–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9439615
Published: 01 February 2022
...Colin Lang In the vast archive of literature from, and on, Hans Blumenberg, there are few mentions of theories of modern or contemporary art. Two exceptions exist, which both took place in 1966. One deals with the topic more obliquely: a lecture on Paul Valéry given at the Akademie der Künste...
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Marx as a Model and Question: Alexander Kluge’s Critical Inquiries

Dorothea Walzer, Mari Jarris
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908364
Published: 01 February 2020
...Dorothea Walzer; Mari Jarris Abstract Alexander Kluge’s oeuvre features aesthetic commentary as a process of problematization and investigation. With exemplary case studies of Kluge’s films, his literary collections of short stories, his television interviews, and his theory volumes composed...
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Thinking beyond Secularization: Walter Benjamin, the “Religious Turn,” and the Poetics of Theory

Daniel Weidner
New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-017
Published: 01 November 2010
... the relation between capitalism and religion in question. Benjamin's thought not only is essentially related to a specific form of expression but also opens up new contexts. In terms of intellectual history, it relates Benjamin to the broad discourse on the relation between religion and (modern) culture...
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Heimat and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung in Ecocritical Perspective

Axel Goodbody
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511907
Published: 01 August 2016
... in the understanding of Heimat , which has paralleled developments in both spatial and ecocritical theory. It proposes that literary representations of the homeland can facilitate an alternative form of dwelling involving a new kind of attachment to place and a nondualist relationship with nature. The second part...
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