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Word Creatures: Theodor Haecker and Walter Benjamin between Geschwätz and Pure Language in the Late Weimar Republic
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 23–47.
Published: 01 February 2018
... Technological Reproducibility .” Monatshefte 104 , no. 1 : 70 – 85 . Ziolkowski Theodore . 1993 . Virgil and the Moderns . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Word Creatures: Theodor Haecker and
Walter Benjamin between Geschwätz
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Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
Published: 01 August 2016
... Ruprecht . Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability
Markus Wilczek
Dissolving the Boundaries of Humanscale
Just eight years after Michel Foucault pronounced the “end of man” in The
Order of Things, thus closing the book on the question of what man...
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The “Aesthetic Dignity of Words”: Adorno's Philosophy of Language
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Samir Gandesha New German Critique, Inc. 2006 The “Aesthetic Dignity of Words”:
Adorno’s Philosophy of Language
Samir Gandesha
There can be little doubt that Jürgen Habermas has decisively set the terms of
the reception of Theodor W...
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Mimetic Rationality: Adorno's Project of a Language of Philosophy
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 85–108.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., without either systems or ontology.” After presenting fundamental aspects of Adorno's theory of language (use of foreign words, tautology, paradox, equivocation), followed by his concepts of constellation, representation ( Darstellung ), and truth, the article concludes by showing how Adorno's conception...
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Searching for Evidence between Generations: Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 57–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Manuel Köppen Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor (2001) and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation (2004) are contrasting cinematic documentaries that return the viewer to German concentration camps in Poland. While Lanzmann insists on the pathos of the primary witness, whose words, like the places...
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Dialectic of Enlightenment Reconsidered
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jeffrey Herf The word critical as applied to the theory of the Frankfurt School applies to the views of capitalism and the Enlightenment in Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's classic work, Dialectic of Enlightenment . The absence of reference to the specificities of German history...
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The Poetic Power of Theory
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
Published: 01 February 2020
... of cognition in a world dominated by Silicon Valley? If one dissolves the word power into the labor contained in it, petrified concepts are secretly changed, and heterogeneous “second-order” experience is made. We speak of the five classic senses of Homo sapiens: hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, touching...
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The Life of a Nomad and a World Citizen: Alexander von Humboldt, Nomadic Knowledge, and the Global Landscapes of Theory
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Ottmar Ette The nomadic thinking in Alexander von Humboldt's American travel journals makes them relevant in the context of global theories. As a theoretician of globalization between words, scientific fields, and worlds, Humboldt explores the dimensions and movements of knowledge through...
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Recolonizing the Mind: Gottfried Benn's Primitivism
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
... with poems like “Erst wenn” and “Ostafrika,” this essay contextualizes Benn's colonial turn in the primitivist/modernist poetics of his earlier Rönne novellas and his brief turn to a fascist aesthetic in essays of the early 1930s. His primitivist poetic fantasy of the “Southern Word” becomes an imaginary...
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Truth and Enigma: Adorno and the Politics of Art
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2018
... words, artworks would be true not because of what they make apparent or acknowledge as unpresentable but because their enigmatic complexion unleashes a crisis of comprehension that challenges our understanding of the world. A “maybe” emblematizes the enigma, whose imaginative appropriation remains truer...
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Herrschaftszeiten! Theopolitical Profanities in the Face of Secularization
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 121–141.
Published: 01 November 2008
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In 1946 Leo Spitzer published one of his more than four hundred etymologi-
cal notes in Word, the journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York (or Cercle
Linguistique de New York), founded by, among others, Roman Jakobson and
Claude Lévi-Strauss in 1943. Under the promising title “Patterns of Thought...
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Lamenting Language Itself: Gershom Scholem on the Silent Language of Lamentation
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 1–26.
Published: 01 November 2010
... from its temporary
exile. An infinite cycle of exile and return is established in which the charged,
anarchic moment of destruction is crucial for transmitting lamentation. In
other words, a double paradox nurtures lamentation. First, as the “language of
destruction,” it gives expression...
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An Other Unspeakability: Levi and Lagerszpracha
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Of
greatest consequence in this moment of nondecipherment is not the signified
per se but the position, in both physical and relational terms, of he or she who is
being (dis)interpellated by the other-language word Schonungsblock (convales-
cent block). Performative initiation into the semiotic ecology...
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Mapping Babel: Language and Exile in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 3–26.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of his ability compiled a dictionary of their language,
consisting almost entirely of vowels, particularly the sound A in countless
variations of intonation and emphasis, not a word of which, Simon writes,
had yet been recorded by the Linguistic Institute in São Paulo. (A, 35)
Sebald...
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Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon's and Gershom Scholem's German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 33–54.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., backwardness,
political chaos, and violence to the scientific atmosphere of the most presti-
gious salons of arguably the world’s most intellectually vibrant city—in other
words, from Sukowyborg to Berlin.
Within the grand narrative of Maimon’s enlightenment, we would expect
the kabbalah...
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The Ends of (German) Film Criticism: On Recurring Doomsday Scenarios and the New Algorithmic Culture
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 45–57.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of Film Criticism about as much as we need another 800-word review of Shrek 4 ” (2010). 4 The tenor and language of the discussion in Was heißt hier Ende? could hardly have been more direct evidence of the argument behind my recent research project on this very subject, and in particular my...
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The Image of Happiness We Harbor: The Messianic Power of Weakness in Cohen, Benjamin, and Paul
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 57–69.
Published: 01 November 2008
... commands.”8 In other
words, religion derives its legitimacy from the weakness of human beings,
who cannot fulfi ll the demands of morality to act well out of rational insight
alone. If human beings were purely rational entities, they would need no reli-
gion. Since, however, they are also sensory...
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Ernst Jünger, Theodor Adorno, and the Idea of Natural History
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 69–97.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and Theodor Adorno in Dialectic of Enlightenment , “the word originally also had a pictorial function. This function was transferred to myths. They, like magic rites, refer to the repetitive cycle of nature. Nature as self-repetition is the core of the symbolic: an entity or a process which is conceived...
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The Sociability of Narrative: Freedom, Vulnerability, and Mediation in the Intercultural Novel
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 51–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... Referencing Kristin Morrison’s essay on “differing points of view,” Stanzel distinguishes between “speaker of the narrative words” and “knower of the narrative story.” In keeping with this distinction, for Stanzel too, the narrative process first requires a “speaker of the narrative words,” because to tell...
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The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg’s Political Theory
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 131–161.
Published: 01 February 2022
... theoreticians of retheologization—it is “not a secure historical characteristic, but its continuing critical officium [duty].” 27 Modernity, in other words, must be defended, without recourse to theological references, but solely from the norm of human self-assertion. In formulating his objections...
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