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The “Enormous Freedom of the Breaking Wave”: The Experience of Tradition in Benjamin between the Talmud and Kant
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Ori Rotlevy Abstract How is freedom tied to tradition? What is the relation between the individual and the collective experience of tradition? To what extent is the experience of tradition part of a modern experience rather than only of an ancient one? This essay argues that these questions lie...
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Did Bach Compose Musical Works? Thinking with Adorno through Paradigms of Possibility
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 1–39.
Published: 01 February 2021
... ) to get a sense or glimpse of what is or might be possible contra the most dominating claim of the status quo, that this present actuality (of appearance) is all that there is. Adorno wrote of rescuing the tradition’s moment of truth from the bad ( schlechter ) traditionalism ( GS , 10.1:316...
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Where Next for New German Critique ?
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 217–224.
Published: 01 November 2023
... , this essay enjoins those of us who study Europe’s past, both recent and distant, to imagine our relationships to our objects of study beyond that of haunting and of debt owed to tradition. With such flexing of the imagination, this essay makes suggestions for how disciplinary overhaul and an explicitly...
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Between the Tyranny of Opinion and the Despotism of Rational Truth: Arendt on Facts and Acting in Concert
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 97–112.
Published: 01 August 2013
...James Phillips In “Truth and Politics” Hannah Arendt defends opinion against the judgment of the philosophical tradition. This defense risks misinterpretation as epistemologically nihilistic unless read in conjunction with Arendt's position on facts and acting in concert. What Arendt prizes...
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Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon's and Gershom Scholem's German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 33–54.
Published: 01 February 2014
... environment in a decrepit Jewish town in eastern Europe but left it behind to travel to Berlin and dedicate his life to philosophy in the tradition of the German enlightenment. Scholem (1897–1982), born a century and a half later to a middle-class acculturated Jewish family in Berlin, left it behind...
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Niklas Luhmann
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 189–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
...William Rasch Niklas Luhmann expressed puzzlement that his work was not well or extensively received in the Anglophone world, especially because he saw himself working within an American tradition characterized by cybernetics and scientific complexity theory. Yet the late twentieth-century...
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Narrative Resemblance: The Production of Truth in the Modernist Photobook of Weimar Germany
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 169–197.
Published: 01 February 2012
... conflating exactitude with truth. Within this discursive framework, photography's truthfulness became located in the rhetorical quality of montage narratives rather than in realism. This move helped overcome established conceptual terms drawn from the tradition of painting, such as verisimilitude...
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Reimagining Enlightenment: In Pursuit of Prudent Modernity
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 25–32.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the tradition of Scottish enlightenment in distinction to its French correspondent, the article endorses a convention that claims the preservation of the bond to transcendence as a moral grounding of human behavior and action, on the one hand, while approving modernity and the positive achievements...
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Nihilism and Belief in Contemporary European Thought
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and exclusion. Habermas's recent efforts to redeem the contents of religious traditions within his secular moral-political proceduralism revive an aspect of his early work that draws on Hegel's politico-religious idea that the violent reparation of social disunity manifests the “causality of fate.” A critical...
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Schatten: Eine nächtliche Halluzination : Staging the Punishment for Women's Emancipation
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 41–64.
Published: 01 November 2013
... precipitated by women's emancipation. The film works to reimpose traditional gender norms and reinforce masculine power both in the narrative, where it stages a sadistic fantasy through which the transgressive wife is punished, and in the structure, where the masculine gaze is positioned as one way to subdue...
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The Politics of Longevity: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Essayism and the Art of Outliving Oneself
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 137–170.
Published: 01 November 2013
... stages an essayistic subjectivity that is inconsistent, petty, and self-defeating. For Syberberg, this project is a matter both of content and of form: his films and books are highly essayistic, but they are unusual essays. Syberberg constructs a unique tradition of essayism for himself that depends...
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Großstadtfilm and Gentrification Debates: Localism and Social Imaginary in Soul Kitchen and Eine flexible Frau
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... focuses on Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen (2009) and Tatjana Turanskyj's Eine flexible Frau ( The Drifters , 2010). It explores how these films take up a tradition of Großstadtfilm including Walter Ruttmann's Berlin—die Sinfonie der Großstadt and Fritz Lang's Metropolis (both 1927). As contemporary feature...
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The Truth of Modern Society? Critical Theory and Fascism
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 75–103.
Published: 01 August 2017
... on the economic and psychoanalytic aspects and concludes that Critical Theory remained too close to traditional Marxism to generate more profound insights into the nature of fascism, especially with regard to its political features. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Frankfurt School Marxism...
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Narratives of Theory Transfer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 21–37.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., 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...
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Baroque out of Focus: The Question of Mediation in Wölfflin
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 79–109.
Published: 01 February 2018
... (1864–1945) drew on the philosophical tradition of idealism as well as the questions raised by technical media at the end of the nineteenth century. The baroque appeared in Wölfflin’s writings not only as a stylistic category to be contrasted with the Renaissance but also as a surrogate...
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Was Nicht im “Baedeker” Steht: Exploring Art, Mass Culture, and Antitourism in Weimar Germany
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
Published: 01 February 2018
... the elite traditions of Baedeker and the republic’s political impasse, this article posits that during this period it was difficult to travel outside established tourist infrastructures. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 guidebook Der Querschnitt Romanisches Café travel...
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Truth and Enigma: Adorno and the Politics of Art
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2018
... by the “truth content” of artworks. This theoretical move is meant to shed new light on how Adorno sees the relationship between art and politics. The inclusion of Adorno in the tradition of the beautiful and his portrayal as a forerunner of Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics of the sublime are flawed. In other...
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“The Great Imitator”: Syphilis and Clandestine Prostitution in Otto Dix’s Die Witwe Watercolors
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Kaia L. Magnusen Abstract During the Weimar Republic the categories of “good,” traditional women and “deviant,” modern women became imprecise as widows’ veils and garb were often adopted by prostitutes to deter arrest. Widows were linked with death and Germany’s postwar shame and were often...
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Critical Approaches to Heimat and the “Spatial Turn”
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
... . This article is thus guided by two main questions: how can Heimat as a term of literary analysis profit from more deliberate and nuanced considerations of space and place, and what can literary representations of Heimat contribute to transdisciplinary discourses on space and place? Some traditional...
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Dismantling the Subject: Concepts of the Individual in the Weimar Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Gottfried Benn
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 1–35.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Harry T. Craver Despite their opposed cultural agendas, the critic and journalist Siegfried Kracauer and the poet Gottfried Benn pursued similar projects of undermining traditional conceptions of the self. Kracauer, a leftist who was never aligned with a party, sought to push aside older notions...
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