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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Amir Engel Abstract This article reconstructs two “modes of memory” in postwar West Germany and explores an underappreciated historical trajectory. These two modes offer radically different ideas about why Germany should remember its past. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Karl Jaspers called...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 69–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... relationship between the struggles of Weimar culture and the effort to construct German socialism amid the ruins of the Nazi state. The article also demonstrates that there are more structural similarities between postwar East and West German culture than is commonly believed, as both cultures appealed...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 91–114.
Published: 01 November 2015
... for the early postwar years. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 motion pictures Weimar Germany 1950s Germany genre Nazism In the Horror Mode?
Weimar Flashbacks and Generic Hybridity
in 1950s West German Cinema
Jaimey Fisher
In her...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Katharina Karcher Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Questions of (dis)ability have played a marginal role in the scholarly literature on contemporary German history and culture and the movements associated with the West German “1968.” 1 But this is changing. The emerging...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 135–153.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Brian M. Puaca The development of West German history textbooks from 1945 through the mid-1960s offers a way to understand what young West Germans were supposed to learn about their country's role in and experience of World War II. Several of the most widely used history textbooks during...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2024
... Adorno texts that addresses architecture. It might be considered a minor text if not for the fact that each issue Adorno raised in it has a corollary in the early postwar practice and discourse of architecture in West Germany. The qualities of urban beauty, the legitimacy of historical and historicizing...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 159–191.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Marco Abel Focusing on Johannes Schaaf’s neglected film Tätowierung ( Tattoo , 1967), this essay revisits a film-theoretical and film-political debate in West Germany around 1968 that involved a conflict between the so-called political Left and the aesthetic Left. Attending to the kinds of violence...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 9–40.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... 2015 Christian democracy religion political economy Weimar Cold War Catholicism and the Economy of Miracles in
West Germany, 1920–1960
James Chappel
And so, with Leo’s Encyclical pointing the way and furnishing...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 97–130.
Published: 01 November 2010
... with Lukács’s early interest
in the South-West Germans rarely try to follow this influence inHistory and
Class Consciousness. Congdon notes the Husserlian language of Lukács’s
Heidelberg aesthetic drafts, but he does not explore whether this continued
to be of importance in Lukács’s social theory...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 175–203.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... 2 At the same time Lukács was spurned in the West as a Stalinist hack for remaining under Soviet authority and for writing a series of crude pieces issued at the worst moments of totalitarianism. Even those such as Adorno who drew on his work about reification routinely attacked his later...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Andreas Huyssen The essay surveys how German painting East and West has dealt with the Third Reich and the Holocaust and how it is shaped by the Cold War confrontation. The comparison of East and West German art opens up both affinities and differences that challenge the lingering Cold War view...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 177–204.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of the West (1918, 1922), he sought to make Spengler’s analysis of Weimar Germany’s undemocratic tendencies—“Caesarism”—serve progressive ends. However, Adorno’s essay was not just an effort at “coming to terms with the past” in Adenauerian West Germany. Reading the essay’s original 1941 version together...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 91–116.
Published: 01 August 2019
... by a West German–Palestinian commando and explores historical references to the traumatic memories of the Holocaust that resonated in the public perception, cinematic depiction, and commemoration of the event. Through an analysis of newspaper coverage, documentary reports, docudrama films, and attempted...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
Published: 01 November 2019
... images” home in on the fleeting relation of part to whole, revealing the difficulty of understanding large concepts such as the West or the human species through such supposedly objective images. This article also discusses the connection between Geyrhalter’s photographic mode and sophisticated...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Eric Rentschler Abstract The often bemoaned crisis of West German cinema in the 1980s coincided with a dramatic changing of the nation’s film critical guard. The symptomatic impetus that had figured so strongly during the postwar era gave way to the so-called new subjectivism of young critics like...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 93–98.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of adult and alternative education in Berlin West. The introduction to Farocki’s text connects with the New German Cinema and themes that remained central throughout his own work: collaboration and quotation, Bertolt Brecht’s concept of “learning plays,” using nonfiction to explore both social relations...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in West Berlin. The second takes the topic of pop and op art head-on in a discussion led by Blumenberg for the research group Poetik und Hermeneutik. In neither does Blumenberg offer anything like a working theory of contemporary art, but his lecture enacts a performative contemporary reading of Valéry’s...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., antisemitism continued in the antifascist, anticapitalist context of both East and West Germany, as shown in The Aesthetics : Jews were portrayed as duplicitous and accused of treason, as “spies.” Weiss himself experienced leftist antisemitism and took this narrative detour to Southeast Asia to address...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Kai Evers; Julia Hell; Seth Howes In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 109–117.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and its revival of the Turkish-language videotape culture in 1980s West Germany furthermore reanimate Benjamin’s commitment to media’s role in the archaeological processes of the archive, which set it loose. References Amad Paula . Counter-archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s...
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