... of figures in his late essay “Typological Motifs” (1953), the present article argues that the temporality of serial repetition provides a key to understanding the antihistoricist elements of Auerbach’s historiography, which breaks with the messianic logic of progressive fulfillment. Contextualizing...

..., the article proposes a fourfold typology of torture by looking at representative examples from Aeschylus's Prometheus to Franz Kafka's “In the Penal Colony” and Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits . The article contends that the incommunicability of torture challenges not only the literary ethics...

... technological processes. It looks at architecture as an organizing element in relation to Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher’s nomadic typologies and the pneumatic architecture of the 1960s and 1970s, with special attention to the films Unser täglich Brot ( Our Daily Bread , 2005), Abendland ( Occident , 2011...

... his clients’ forceful behavior by using the verbs nötigen (to force) and bombardieren (to bombard). In addition to their warlike conduct, Malten zooms in on their tendency to lie and their wildness, a client typology that carries inflections of Otto Weininger’s misogynist categorization...

... (Munich: Beck, 2003). Claudia Schmölders 117 Weber’s charismatic typology was the poet Stefan George. During and even after his life George received a degree of physiognomic attention comparable only to what Goethe had received a hundred years earlier.5...

... when he says that this second type of form “emerges” or arises from the works ( AT , 195). Adorno thereby approximates what in his typology of forms David Wellbery refers to as “endogenous form.” 29 By contrast, violent form, which gets its teeth into content or the particular until it “flickers...

... such a typological approach to conspiracy theories, we would like to suggest an analysis of their specifi c style of thought. Conspir- 11. Dieter Groh, “The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory; or, Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part I: Preliminary Draft of a Theory of Conspiracy Theories...

... and a certain ethic of work. But beyond this specific justification on the level of typological causality, a certain type of narrative also renders the plot plausible: Weber motivates his story through both rhetorical underpinning and narrative representation, involving a topographical logic of opposition...

... typology of forms of iteration.” At that point deconstruction can intervene, and Derrida sees possibilities “in reversing and displacing a conceptual order as well as the nonconceptual order with which it is articulated.”21 Considerations of this sort resonate with Farocki’s project. When...

... time, characteristic of tradition. In Benjamin’s letter on Kant of October 1917, he writes: The most profound typology of conceiving doctrine has thus far always become clear to me in Kant’s words and ideas. And no matter how great the number of Kantian minutiae that may have to fade away, his...

.... For a reflection on Levi’s camp experience and his testimony in contrast to Viktor Frankl’s, see Timothy E. Pytell, “Typology of Gray Flowers: Levi and Frankl on Surviving Auschwitz,” in The Legacy of Primo Levi, ed. Stanislao G. Pugliese (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004...

... of the post-Christian “typology” (the imposition by the subject of an ideal type, Gestalt, on matter), while Adorno, at least in Dialectic of Enlightenment, speaks more broadly of the identifica- tory rationality, which is itself a paradoxical offspring of mimesis and which relies on a hidden mythical...

... typological signifiers remain obscure; her black widow’s veil and obvious makeup complicate attempts to identify her. Her resistance to easy classification as one type of woman reflects the real-life confusion that problematized attempts to differentiate between Weimar widows and prostitutes masquerading...

... to mine in that way. Ever closer it presses against me, and I follow it face to face. It’s not even true that there is air between us; I consume it. It is in me like a sacra- ment. Maximum visual acuity.”15 The face actively resists typology, and Epstein cites Edgar Allan Poe’s critique...

... and the United States, for example.46 While Horkheimer, despite certain reservations, was willing to adopt this typology as his own and also defended it against critics like Franz Neumann,47 Adorno expressed serious doubts about the “undialectical assumption that, in an antagonistic society...

... Manuel Köppen  71 witnesses, Karmakar’s sequences sometimes read as deliberate decomposi- tions of preexisting scenarios. In the free play of failures and half understand- ings they reveal a clear, generation-specific typology. The witnesses of the first generation, who experienced the German...

... Peter Thompson In this article I show how lateness as a concept can be dealt with philosophi- cally as well as in terms of the chronology or typology of the works of a given cultural figure. Time itself is not something that can be approached only in a fixed and linear fashion. Rather...

...- Eva Horn  7 scribe to religion’s imperative of faith or, therefore, to the claim to authority that the charismatic leader would impose. His approach is entirely descriptive and typological. Defining “charismatic domination” as one of three forms of “legitimate domination,” Weber focuses...

... opposition of habitus and field, Deleuze’s milieu challenges that very subjective-objective dichotomy. For a typology of milieus, see Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (London: Continuum, 2004), 345. 58  The Fall of the Wall...

... the same. The reductive equality of works to wares was but the flip side of a dogmatic, academic, ideological abstraction that subsumed the all under a single concept. He described the systematization and classification not only of listeners but of a social domain of music, where the social typology...