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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 93–120.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Alison Ross This article gives a critical account of the prevailing interpretation of Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” essay. It argues that the position Benjamin's essay defends regarding violence is not cogent within the terms of the essay itself and that the opaque formulations...
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in Johannes Schaaf’s Tätowierung ( Tattoo , 1967), West German Cinema around 1968, and the Joys of Violence; or, The Forgotten Case of the “Aesthetic Left”
> New German Critique
Published: 01 November 2024
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 139–167.
Published: 01 February 2012
... neo-Nazi leader, provide the principal texts on which this examination is based. This article argues that the disruptions caused by political violence at the collective level, which have been explored in recent literatures on the politics of exception, also need to be examined at the individual level...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 193–215.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jonas Heller This article explores the political implications of the figure of Medea by analyzing the affinity between violence and nonviolence in her actions. A new reading of two versions of the mythical material—the apparently violent Medea in Euripides’s tragedy, and the apparently nonviolent...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 159–191.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 1. Associative cut transforming the joy of violence into the violence of joy. ...
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in Johannes Schaaf’s Tätowierung ( Tattoo , 1967), West German Cinema around 1968, and the Joys of Violence; or, The Forgotten Case of the “Aesthetic Left”
> New German Critique
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 4. Benno taking joy in the violence on-screen.
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 107–132.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Barbara N. Nagel The attention that the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser pays to domestic violence can be regarded as exceptional. So why does child abuse still remain a blind spot in the scholarship on Walser? This article discerns techniques that Walser uses to render family violence...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 109–133.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Mary Nolan This article examines how the Federal Republic of Germany responded to leftist political dissent, protest, and violence by constructing it as extremism and criminalizing forms of opposition and protest. This occurred during the outlawing of the Communist Party of Germany in the 1950s...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 135–165.
Published: 01 August 2024
... that nationalistic politics should be merely an extension of World War I violence. His interrelated arguments downplayed the differences between war and politics, indirectly justifying political violence. Given Jünger’s explicit rejection of any characteristically political means, we should read him as a military...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the violence of history while also anticipating a future in which such violence does not exist. The article calls the new form of temporality that would engage properly with past and future metamorphic . Metamorphic time thus involves recollection and speculation that dialectically refer to each other. 33...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., is the first announcement of the death of God. Girard, disputing Vattimo's interpretive strategies, identifies the crucifixion as a world-historical exposure of the sacrificial origins of human society: the Christian scapegoat undoes the myths that found society's unity on a hidden act of violence...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of hegemonic knowledge, where the elite may follow as insiders the creative process of ideology construction. The inner circle of Hitler's supporters is thus less taken by a blind fanaticism than initiated into the enjoyment of the performative character of verbal violence. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 133–153.
Published: 01 August 2018
... literary form, as a nonindexical linguistic device to resist the harm and violence brought about through a language used for classification and delineation, and as a poetic figure to write an impossible conversation into existence. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 On May 16, 1960...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2019
... specific performers or specific trajectories of violence in the contexts in which each artist was working, for instance, the Vietnam War (Kathy O’Dell), this article localizes artistic self-injury within the larger coherencies of the history of mind with respect to aesthetic theories. Questions...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 207–233.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and violence. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 German film Oberhausen Manifesto New German Cinema Dominik Graf Berlin School Because a genre is not one thing serving one purpose, but multiple things serving multiple purposes for multiple groups, it remains a permanently...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 215–229.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Enzensberger’s texts as engaging Frantz Fanon’s “On Violence,” published in Kursbuch , together with Enzensberger’s “Europäische Peripherie” (1965), the article to which Weiss responds with “Enzensberger’s Illusions.” Analyzing their present moment in global terms, the authors debate the role of European...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Brian Britt Walter Benjamin’s ambivalent engagement with anarchist thought extends beyond well-known works from the early 1920s such as “Critique of Violence” (1921). Contemporary anarchist thinkers, including Gustav Landauer and Georges Sorel, influenced Benjamin and many of his associates...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
... diagnosis brings together an analysis of the unprecedented postwar prosperity, forms of evasive historical thinking, and the persistence of racialized violence. This essay turns to Adorno to grapple with catastrophe of another, historically continuous order: the crisis of climate change, the persistent...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 175–184.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jessica Ruffin This essay proposes an ethics for critical philosophies attuned to global white supremacy and its effects of violence, erasure, and precarity. The essay examines Arthur Schopenhauer as a potential forefigure for critical practices that aim to attend to the precarious survival...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of “omnidirectional” disorientations in translation, the article argues that Petrowskaja’s entangled remembering of the mass violence and state terror of the twentieth century can be described as a translational transnationalism attentive to multiple localities, histories, and memory cultures in Europe. 33...
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