...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...

... . Uexküll Jakob von . 1934 . Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen: Ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten; Bedeutungslehre . Berlin : Springer . ———. 2010 . A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, with Theory of Meaning , translated by O'Neil Joseph D. . Minneapolis...

...Andreas Huyssen New German Critique, Inc. 2007 Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World Andreas Huyssen In memory of Edward W. Said The geography of classical modernism is primarily determined...

...Devin Fore New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Döblinʼs Epic: Sense, Document, and the Verbal World Picture Devin Fore I long for the critic of language who would be young and strong enough to sweep...

... Remapping Relief and Rescue: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during World War II Atina Grossmann This article, part of a work in progress, seeks to suggest another reading of war and Holocaust...

... Ruttmann's Melodie der Welt ( Melody of the World , 1929), it argues that Weimar culture mobilized Querschnitt montage to come to terms with a new visual “archive”: namely, the thousands of indexical images of the world now circulating in illustrated journals and films. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc...

... is to come” is “not so much a signal of the unconscious, of latent processes, repressions, or censorship (as the psychologists like to think), but a signal from another world” ( SW , 2:203–6). Hansen, who offers the most extended and developed discussion of Benjamin’s theory of innervation, suggests...

...Christoph Schaub Abstract Largely overlooked in the booming scholarship on world literature, literary globalization, and transnational modernism, a world literature of socialist internationalism was imagined, written, theorized, and practiced in the aftermath of World War I, representing the first...

... by Hoban Wieland . Cambridge : Polity , 2018 . Adorno Theodor W. Negative Dialectics , translated by Ashton E. B. . London : Routledge , 1973 . Andrews Malcolm . Landscape and Western Art . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1999 . Cavell Stanley . The World...

... after its resurgence, whether political theology means quite the same now as it did in the era of its birth. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 On the Origins of “Political Theology”: Judaism and Heresy between the World Wars Benjamin Lazier History...

...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...

...Marianna Papastephanou Abstract In antiquity Diogenes was asked to identify himself as a citizen. He retorted by affirming that he was a “citizen of the world” and thus implicitly rejecting local citizenship. Ever since, his political identification has become a reference point in most literature...

... adventures, he not only reflected on the change of foreign politics in the aftermath of World War I but set out to argue for the Weimar Republic to become a Western democracy. His defense of the parliamentary system, his claim for a democratic capitalism, his plea for European unity, and his early critique...

...Paul J. D’Ambrosio; Hans-Georg Moeller Abstract Roberto Simanowski’s work reflects on how the internet transforms understandings of ourselves, others, and the world—or our “identity.” Three concepts inform his analysis: instant selves, the idea that algorithms automatically create narratives...

...Meike Hoffmann With the unexpected discovery of the “Munich Art Trove” in November 2013, the name of Hildebrand Gurlitt became famous overnight through media stories around the world. Spanning four periods of German history, Gurlitt started as an art historian in the late-period German Reich...

..., this article argues that the proponents of this view fail to recognize that the desire to overcome anthropocentrism was central to Enlightenment thought. Like the latter, ecological posthumanism accords itself cognitive privileges that presuppose a successful distantiation of the world. According...

... to claim that the dissolution of any transcendent source of value and authority in the modern world—the advent of nihilism in that sense—is a liberating opening initiated in Western culture by the figure of Christ: Paul's interpretation of Christ's kenosis, divinity lowering itself into human mortality...