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Figure 1. Associative cut transforming the joy of violence into the violence of joy.

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
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The Distinction between Mythic and Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” from the Perspective of “Goethe's Elective Affinities ”

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Alison Ross
New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 93–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2398642
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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Medea’s Violence: Apathy as a Politics of Withdrawal

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Jonas Heller
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 193–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11309249
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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Johannes Schaaf’s Tätowierung ( Tattoo , 1967), West German Cinema around 1968, and the Joys of Violence; or, The Forgotten Case of the “Aesthetic Left”

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Marco Abel
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 159–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11309236
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 1. Associative cut transforming the joy of violence into the violence of joy. ...
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Figure 4. Benno taking joy in the violence on-screen.

Benno taking joy in the violence on-screen.

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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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Leaving a Life of Political Violence: A Neo-Nazi Steigt Aus

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William Little
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 139–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1434533
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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The Child in the Dark: On Child Abuse in Robert Walser

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Barbara N. Nagel
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 107–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734833
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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Another Language: The Relationship between War and Politics in Ernst Jünger’s Early Political Writings

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Timo Pankakoski
New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 135–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11165823
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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Pushing the Defensive Wall of the State Forward: Terrorism and Civil Liberties in Germany

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Mary Nolan
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 109–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1677291
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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The Metamorphic Temporality of Natural Beauty: Adorno’s Negation of Kantian Disinterested Contemplation

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Justin Neville Kaushall
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288167
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...
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Introduction to “Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger: A Controversy”

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Julia Hell
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 215–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965402
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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The Inversions of Walter Benjamin’s Anarchism

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Brian Britt
New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10140747
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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Where the Earth Folded: Celan’s Encounter with Leibniz, August 1959

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Jens Klenner
New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 133–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6684197
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. References André Robert . 2001 . Gespräche von Text zu Text...
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Coming to Terms with the Future

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Jennifer Fay
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10708293
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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Preface to a Philosophy by Which No One Can Live

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Jessica Ruffin
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 175–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10708419
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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Katja Petrowskaja’s Translational Poetics of Memory

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Eneken Laanes
New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11165784
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...
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Joachim Bruhn’s Left-Wing Critique of Anti-Zionism and the Capitalist State in the 1990s: An Intellectual History of the Antideutsche

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Will Stratford
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11309223
Published: 01 November 2024
.... The theoretically sophisticated but little-studied Antideutsche group, the Initiative Sozialistisches Forum (Socialist Forum Initiative), led by Joachim Bruhn, used the occasion of unification skepticism and increased anti-immigrant violence in the 1990s to develop a unique Kapitalismuskritik , before...
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Nihilism and Belief in Contemporary European Thought

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John Brenkman
New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2077735
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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Ideology in Execution: On Hitler's Mein Kampf

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Albrecht Koschorke
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2824201
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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Self-Injuring Body Art: Strategies of De/Subjectivation

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Rosemarie Brucher
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 151–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546220
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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