...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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 Paul Celan...

... 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...

..., and violence. 52. See, for instance, his thoughtful email exchange with members of the Berlin School in Graf, Hochhäusler, and Petzold, “Berliner Schule?” 53. Graf, Schläft ein Lied , 333 . 54. These were produced in 2012 to accompany screenings at the Deutsches Filmmuseum and can...

... of Weimar horror and violence (e.g., of Nosferatu or M ) in several important 1950s films, including Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene , Hans König's Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab , and Robert Siodmak's Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam . It is telling that none of these films could be considered an outright horror...

... propaganda films for the German High Command. However, he shunned live-action film sequences of the war, which were subject to heavy censorship, and instead drew on American-style cinematic animation to convey a subversive message about the war's violence and horror. Although he later became famous for his...

... 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...

...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...

... of violence and the constitution of the self. This article therefore also looks at Améry’s writings on violence and the thought of Frantz Fanon (1925–61). What does Améry—an Austrian Jew born as Hans Mayer, who survived torture by the Gestapo and the horrors of Auschwitz—have to do with the Martinican...

...Jamie H. Trnka “The Struggle Is Over, the Wounds Are Open”: Cinematic Tropes, History, and the RAF in Recent German Film Jamie H. Trnka Recent German films have taken up questions of terrorist violence in ways distinct from an earlier...

... after) critique the violence asso- ciated with their parents’ generation, in the aftermath of the Six Days’ War, members of the New Left construed Israel and Zionism as the new face of fascism. Such groups shared the common perception that “Jews who were expelled by fascism developed themselves...

... to be denounced, but in truth language instructs the very skēnē of torture. The setting of the stage of torture is deeply inter- twined with the writing of the scene of torture and not only for etymological reasons (scenography: skēnē + graphein). In the scenography of torture the violence...

... in postwar Germany. Richter’s work resonates with the concerns of the postwar generation, namely, memory and representation, the affi nity of art with death or violence, and issues surrounding the postmodern visual arts. Thus most scholars have viewed his cycle on the Red Army Faction (RAF), October...

... crimes towards an aesthetic interest in its bombastic style and a prurient interest in its lurid projections of sex and violence.” 21 My approach moves the optics of this discussion to the analysis of a broader cultural dynamic, by including the normalization of the Nazis into a larger trend...