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Papers

(The TQCC of New German Critique is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance	4
The Inversions of Walter Benjamin’s Anarchism	3
“After Frankfurt”: Sedimentations, Colonialism, and Critical Theory	2
The Boulevard of Sunset: Adorno’s Lyric Subject	2
From Censors to Sex Cinemas: Exploiting Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Wildwechsel	2
New Perspectives in German Studies: A View from the Margins	2
Adorno’s “Urbanism and Societal Order” and the State of Rebuilding West Germany, 1949	1
Peter Weiss and Others	1
Marxist and Formless: Uncanny Materialism in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance	1
Decoding Aesop: Blumenberg’s Fabulistic Turn	1
The Body Encyclopedic: Embodiment in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain	1
“Life of the Community”: Gustav Landauer Reads Friedrich Hölderlin	1
In Memoriam	1
More Than an Old Love Affair: Media Art and Walter Benjamin	1
Singularly German in the Pluriverse	1
“The 62 Members of the Mickey Mouse Club”: Yearbook Impressions	1
Medea’s Violence: Apathy as a Politics of Withdrawal	1
Johannes Schaaf’s Tätowierung (Tattoo, 1967), West German Cinema around 1968, and the Joys of Violence; or, The Forgotten Case of the “Aesthetic Left”	1
Introduction: Critical Theory after Frankfurt	1
No More Than Seeing: Hans Blumenberg’s Poetics of Spectatorship	1
Hope in a Warming World: Rereading Adorno on Progress	1
Death Writes: Franz Kafka, Tubercular Soundscapes, and the Place of Literature	1
The Ethos of Distance in Emotional Culture Critiques: Helmuth Plessner, Richard Sennett, Frank Furedi	1
In Memoriam	1
Totality Reconsidered: Lukács’sHistory and Class Consciousnessa Century On	1

Awakening: A Politico-Existential Understanding of Messianism; On Walter Benjamin’s Project for a New Humankind	1
“The Most Profound Confirmation of the Existence of a Dissonance”: Émile Boutroux, Georg Simmel, and Lukács’s Theory of the Novel, with an Outlook to History and Class Consciousness	1
We Can Come Very Close to Them: Solidarity and the Struggle for Liberation inThe Aesthetics of Resistance	1
Epic Solutions of the “Goethe Problem” in Lukács and Moretti	0
Unburdening from the Absolute: In Memory of Hans Blumenberg	0
Against False Universals and Identitarian Thought	0
Continuity as Catastrophe: Origins of a Thesis in Walter Benjamin	0
Criteria of Tragic Form: Toward a Reconstruction of Lukács’s Earliest Critical Theory	0
Where Next for New German Critique?	0
Erich Auerbach’s Figural Interpretation and the Uncanny Jew	0
Hans Blumenberg and Leonardo	0
Cynical Securities in Fassbinder’s Third Generation	0
Pictorial Realism in Peter Weiss’sThe Aesthetics of Resistance	0
Preface to a Philosophy by Which No One Can Live	0
Fassbinder’s Jews: Screening Jewish/German History in Berlin Alexanderplatz	0
Alfred Andersch, the Cinéma des Auteurs, and the Poetics of Screenwriting	0
Introduction to “Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger: A Controversy”	0
Occupation as Critique: Left-Wing Student Organizing in Frankfurt and San Diego, 1969	0
The Concert Hall as Agonistic Public Space: The Gewandhaus in Leipzig	0
Lukács’s Theory of Metabolism as a Foundation of Ecosocialist Realism	0
Katja Petrowskaja’s Translational Poetics of Memory	0
Benjamin and the Archive Today	0
Undisciplined Knowledge: Intersectional Black European Studies	0
Odysseus and Adorno: A Note on Cunning and Dialectics	0
Unfolding Political Emergence: The Knowledge of Visual Artworks in Peter Weiss’sThe Aesthetics of Resistance	0
Intellectuals, Philosophy, and Politics in Dark Times: Interview of Ágnes Heller by Waldemar Bulira	0
In Memory of Ernst Cassirer: Speech Delivered in Acceptance of the Kuno Fischer Prize of the University of Heidelberg, 1974	0
Joachim Bruhn’s Left-Wing Critique of Anti-Zionism and the Capitalist State in the 1990s: An Intellectual History of the Antideutsche	0
The Sociability of Narrative: Freedom, Vulnerability, and Mediation in the Intercultural Novel	0
Love, Actually? Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and the Possibility of Love in Capitalist Modernity	0
What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with Self-Emancipation?	0
Desiring Politics: Herbert Marcuse, Raya Dunayevskaya, and the Political Economy of Exhaustion	0
Jewish Revenge on the German Screen	0
The Call to Political Geography	0
German Media Studies: A Critical Update	0
Art in the First Screen Age: László Moholy-Nagy and the Affordances of Surfaces, Canvases, and Scrims	0
The Woman with Scissors and Glue: Film Editing and Radical Montage in Weimar Cinema	0
The Nature of Critique: Revisiting Adorno’s “Natural History” amid the Postcritique Debates	0
Choose Your Own Adventure	0
Weber’s “Strange Intoxication”	0
Introduction: Aesthetic and Social Form after Lukács	0
Revolt against Time: Jean Améry on the Constitution of the Self	0
Introduction	0
Coming to Terms with the Future	0
Decolonizing Reading Publics, Decompartmentalizing German Studies	0
Stahlmann’s “Asian Eyes”: Jewish Identity in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 3	0
Franz Rosenzweig, Richard Wagner, and the Sacred Theater of the Day of Atonement	0
The Fear of Fear of Fear	0
Nazism as Inhumanity: Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt on Race and Language	0
Deutsche Rindergrammatik; or, The Once and Future Aurochs	0

Polytheism as Political Form: Schmitt, Cassirer, Blumenberg	0
Engels after Frankfurt: Nature and Enlightenment in Critical Theory	0
Adorno’s Cosmopolitan Solidarity	0
Queer Spectrality and the Hope of Heterolingual Address	0
Abject Eve: A Revolutionary Reading of Lasker-Schüler’s “Erkenntnis”	0
Intermittent Legitimacy: Hans Blumenberg and Artificial Intelligence	0
“My Program Is Still Broader Than the Sea”: Gershom Scholem’s Letters to Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1940–1953	0
Habermas the Freelance Journalist: The Relationship between Theory and Practice in Habermas’s Early Career	0
A More Immanent Critique; or, Inside the House That Alexander Mitscherlich Built	0
Guy Maddin’sCarefuland the Mountain Film: A Transnational Approach to German Film History	0
The Natural History of Disidentification: Critical Queerness after Adorno	0
The Crucible of the Transnational and National: The New Wave Anti-Fascist Production Trend and Fassbinder’s Despair	0
The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg’s Political Theory	0
The Institutionalization of Memory Politics in a Hybrid Political Regime: The Figure, Legacy, and Appropriation of György Lukács in Hungary between 2010 and 2020	0
Enzensberger’s Illusions	0
Introduction	0
A Sympathy with Death: Weimar Politics from Heidegger to Mann	0
On Similarity in Contemporary German Jewish Literature	0
Between Formalism and Theatricality: Rereading Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher	0
Outline of the Psychophysical Educational Problem in the Work of Walter Benjamin	0
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance	0
Adorno on Actually Existing Socialism	0
Presence as Absence: The Homely and the Unhomely in Jewish Photography under Nazism	0
Longing for the Sonderweg	0
Introduction: Hans Blumenberg at 101	0
The Permanent Exhibition in the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance and Its Role in Austria’s Dealing with the Nazi Past and the Holocaust	0
Fassbinder’s Unrequited Love: In a Year with 13 Moons	0
Mabuse Returns: Fritz Lang, 1950s Berlin, and the Afterlife of Nazi Television	0
A Well-Tempered Modernist	0
Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Blumenberg and the Need for Philosophical Anthropology	0
Diva Time, Diva Space: Fassbinder and Veronika Voss	0
Another Language: The Relationship between War and Politics in Ernst Jünger’s Early Political Writings	0
Fassbinder’s Fascist Drag	0
Unhappy End: Understanding Silence in Andreas Dresen’s Stilles Land	0
Ernst Jünger, Theodor Adorno, and the Idea of Natural History	0
Laudation for Seyla Benhabib: Introduction to the Adorno Prize Lecture—Frankfurt, September 11, 2024	0
Secular Reason? A Minor Query about a Major Work	0
Habermas’s Emancipation as Lifeworldization	0
The Child in the Dark: On Child Abuse in Robert Walser	0
Reconsidering Photographic Temporality through Piotr Uklański’s Nazis	0
For Future Reference: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Peter Weiss’s Poetics of Parataxis and Scenes of Walking	0
Renewing Resistance at Sea and on Isles: Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 2, for the Twenty-First Century	0