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...Mary Cosgrove This article examines the troubling image of postunification Germany as a terrain vague —a potentially unbounded, hostile space continually exposed to the vicissitudes of history—in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung ( Haunted by Home , 2008) and Julia Schoch's Mit der Geschwindigkeit des...

... his mind, however, Strauss, a refugee in England and then in America, began to retreat from the ideas that had influenced him during the 1920s and from his own previous attitude toward certain elements of modern civilization. This retreat was not clear, absolute, or complete but complicated, vague...

... of the terms' overlapping semantic scopes. This article interrogates postwar and Cold War as distinct registers of cultural analysis, rather than as vague chronological markers. Photographic adaptation and recoding of the ruin motif—a foundational element of the postwar aesthetic—for Cold War purposes offers...

...Christopher Turner This article explores Theodor W. Adorno's “central concept” of the Bann , generally translated as “spell” and understood as a suggestive, if vague, metaphor. Through etymological analysis and investigation into Adorno's use of it in several key texts, especially Negative...

... to the French nouvelle vague was doomed to failure in many respects. Nevertheless, since it was also intended to be a decidedly literary answer to the crisis of West German film around 1960, Andersch’s attempt is worth a closer look. A central point of reference in the novel Die Rote is Michelangelo...

... received more attention than others. The history of Cahiers du cinéma and of 1950s and 1960s French film culture has been witnessed in countless books and films and transformed into legend and myth: the overlap between Cahiers du cinéma and the nou- velle vague, as well as critical infighting...

...- fect means doing the very best one can. Doing the best one can, however, is often for the philosopher not enough. Goodman argues for the strict condition of perfect compliance to avoid the logical problem of vagueness. He seeks a solution to what is called the Sorites paradox...

..., the unclear—on fluid borders, nuances, minimal deviations, fuzziness and vagueness—and define such terms using flexible and polyvalent language.” 14 The contributors to the volume highlight several features of the concept that render it newly useful for contemporary cultural and literary studies: (1...

... to this ground is itself vague and ambivalent. Positivism debases the majestic if presumptuous idea that system is philosophy’s task by 19. Rosenzweig, “Das älteste Systemprogramm,” 41. 20. Ibid. 66 Rosenzweig’s “Oldest System-Program” claiming that the only job left for philosophy is to hold...

... statements. For example, when Durth describes the policy of demolishing residential housing to make way for new government buildings, he says that Speer casually mentioned that one way to make room for the displaced residents “might be to use Jewish accommoda- tion.” After this vague statement...

..., the other four focus either on provincial locations in the former GDR or on what, following Mary Cosgrove, one might call a terrain vague, expos- ing the treachery of a safe heritage.14 The prevailing discourse on political 11. Ingo Schulze, “Mein Westen,” in Was wollen wir? Essays, Reden, Skizzen...

... assume basic affi nities between him and Generation Golfers. The way Generation Golf accelerates across a mostly German and sometimes American pop-culture landscape does vaguely recall Tykwer’s most famous fi lm to date, Lola rennt (Run Lola Run, 1998). Intertextuality that borrows from high...

... , written with Adorno, partly undertakes this task. However, while Dialectic of Enlightenment indeed focuses on a historical analysis of the origin and rise of the modern scientific attitude—culminating in the instrumentalization of reason—and holds out the vague hope for a form of reason that is “other...

... Böhme's Aesthetic Theory of Nature.” ISLE 18 , no. 2 : 553 – 68 . Cosgrove Mary . 2012 . “Heimat as Nonplace and Terrain Vague in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Julia Schoch's Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers.” New German Critique , no. 2 : 63 – 86 . Csikszentmihalyi...

... Wilder, 101; Sikov, On Sunset Boulevard, 36; Aurich, “Billie,” 49; and Kevin Lally, Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder (New York: Holt, 1996), 16. Other scholars are vague: Gemünden mentions an “exclusive Berlin café” (Foreign Affair, 1), and Jensen talks about “a Berlin hotel” (Body by Weimar...

... vague and indistinct enough to embrace related perspectives (122). To be sure, Rabinbach does not leave things entirely open-ended: even though no single version of “Nazi ideology” became hegemonic in the Third Reich, the general Gesinnung presupposed and thereby set the normative agenda. As he...

..., then it is too abstract. Finally, a counterviolence that is abstract is evident by the fact that it is not initiated by or does not represent the oppressed minorities. 58 As Stephan Steiner notes, the problem of these vague criteria is inherent to the exercise of counterviolence, which is oriented in praxis...

... guarded by armed offi - cers. Though Haghi’s ultimate political or fi nancial interests remain unclear, his conspiracy obviously concerns international politics and the rather vague idea of “world domination”—the default telos of modern conspiracies. He steals a secret Japanese treaty, thereby...

... annihilation. David L. Pike’s exploration of the “spatial metaphorics” of Cold War Berlin includes a panorama of representations focusing vaguely on the Wall that defined both local and global division during the twenty-eight years of its existence and on the tunnels that were said “both to echo...

... vague hints of the auditory condition of his lungs, detailed medical reports survive from Kafka’s stay at a sanatorium in Matliary, Slovakia, in 1921. Significantly, Kafka himself saw these records, as he enclosed copies in requests he sent to his employer for an extension of his medical leave. 21...