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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 1–30.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the “critical intent” at work in it (FSR, 388), his reading fails to register a level of nuance vital to Horkheimer’s argument. I contend that Horkheimer indeed grounds his indictment of instrumental reason in forms of truth and reason. However, since Horkheimer locates the forms of truth and reason to which he...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 105–133.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Puritanism transhistorical reading A scholar’s empathy can be understood as a feat of imagination, which depends on the richness of contextual detail achieved in research and consists in an experience of access, however necessarily imperfect, to the thoughts and feelings of another. But what...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 71–99.
Published: 01 August 2023
... reinterpretation of Marx in Time, Labor, and Social Domination decisively dispelled that confusion while also making a crucial distinction between two opposed readings of Marx, including their respective approaches to totality. Postone distinguishes between what he calls “traditional Marxism” 3...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 101–129.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of Critical Theory . Totowa, NJ : Rowman and Littlefield , 1981 . Feenberg Andrew . “ Why Students of the Frankfurt School Will Have to Read Lukács .” In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory , edited by Thompson Michael J. , 109 – 33 . New York : Palgrave , 2017 . Ferraris...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 135–157.
Published: 01 November 2022
... land at all. Read transhistorically, Weiss’s imaginative activation of Géricault’s painting enables us to perceive that the situation on the raft has never abated but rather morphed into an engulfing reality to which Gilroy’s aforementioned call for an offshore humanism and the restoration...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 43–63.
Published: 01 November 2022
... magnum opus situated its analysis of fascism within a sweeping, even transhistorical, analysis of domination comprising numerous individual analyses of imperialism’s changing forms of appearance—its local techniques of oppression, the visual and narrative strategies its key state actors have employed...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 143–164.
Published: 01 November 2008
.... 143 144 Judaism and Heresy as an instance of theocracy, which in turn is characterized as a transhistorical option for orienting ourselves in the world and among one another. The interest in theocracy, and in more complicated ways the impulse, has also arisen in a more obstreperous...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 103–128.
Published: 01 February 2023
..., this statement seems to situate the performance squarely within the realm reserved for the collective body, which is temporally bound to a historical moment and context, as opposed to the corporal substance, which embodies the eternal, transhistorical creative powers of spirit. But perhaps we can read...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
... somewhat divergent readings. First, I analyze how the film imagines the so-called German-Jewish symbiosis at the moment of its most violent dissolution, concluding that Spielzeugland attempts to rewrite German-Jewish history through a narrative of rescue in which a non- Jewish German woman not only...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
... through readings of cultural anthropology, including Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss’s work on magic and Roger Caillois’s study of animal mimicry. 63 While Adorno adopts Caillois’s thought that mimesis is motivated by the drive for assimilation, he refuses the French surrealist’s investment...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
... can it go all the way and accept a concrete historical moment as the messianic age. For Scholem, and even more so for Taubes, the latter option would have been the danger of Sabbatianism. The messianic is essentially a transhistorical force that breaks into history. Only from this transcendent...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 223–237.
Published: 01 February 2015
... but as something that can be read anew with regard to the question of its meaning for today and tomorrow. Now, one might arrive at the idea that it is no accident that the thought of the implex—the reminder of a certain potentiality in what is—can be traced to a modernist, even perhaps emblematically...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 47–65.
Published: 01 August 2014
... says in the beginning of her essay “The Mass Production of the Senses,” the vernacular modernism idea first flashed across her mind as she read my 1996 account of the “Americanist” trend in early Soviet film theory and practice.3 All my essay said was that the Soviet image of Ameri- can cinema...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 93–112.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., forced migration, and border externalization, 23 the twenty-first-century reading context foregrounds questions about the very basis of forging transnational and transhistorical linkages. One of the most explicit reflections on historical and cultural comparison in Die Ästhetik des Widerstands can...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 87–100.
Published: 01 November 2007
... tension he experienced in preparing for the two roles came much more from the simultaneous reading of Goebbels’s and Victor Klemperer’s diaries, an experience that gave him a sense of almost unbearable contrast between the exercise of power and suffer- ing at the hands of power.3 If Matthes...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
... goes “colo- nial” and that German modernism’s greatest poet brings the language of high modernism into explicit contact with colonial discourse. Reading select poems of the 1920s through the lens of Benn’s literary primitivism uncovers a link between high modernist alienation and colonial...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 5–24.
Published: 01 November 2023
... .” New German Critique , no. 137 ( 2019 ): 27 – 34 . Sprenger Florian . “ Academic Networks 1982/2016: The Provocations of a Reading .” Translated by Pakis Valentine A. . Grey Room 63 ( 2016 ): 70 – 89 . Sprenger Florian . Politics of Micro-decisions: Edward Snowden, Net...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 65–91.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and even death itself, into figures of emancipatory subjective agency. Analyses of the novel’s interpretive engagement with visual artworks such as Guernica demonstrate how these sections of the novelistic text interrupt historical temporality, establish a transhistorical collectivity, and superimpose...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 141–178.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... But digitization has also often been implemented in ways that reinforce an understanding of texts as things to be read rather than seen. As we become more attuned to the materiality of texts, we simultaneously grapple with the limits of digitization, with the effacement of certain dimensions of textual materiality...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 125–152.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and just enough distance from the Nazi elites to maintain an illusion of independence. The availability of his vision of workerdom to politicized and apolitical readings is evident already in the range of publishers: the venerable Stuttgart-based Cottasche Buchhandlung, forever associated with the names...