Journal articleThe Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory · October 2024
This paper looks at Carl Schmitt’s critical analysis of Bettina von Arnim’s works in his book Political Romanticism (1919). Most of the political Romantics who Schmitt discusses are conservative, such as Adam Müller or the mature Friedrich Schlegel. Yet Sc ...
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Journal articleTelos · 2024
The paper examines the conceptual architecture of Carl Schmitt's 1924 work The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. Schmitt famously argues that democracy and parliamentarism are distinct, and that democracy does not require parliamentary institutions. Less ...
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Journal articleMonatshefte: fuer deutschsprachige literatur und kultur · 2023
We argue that Herder's often-ignored "Negro Idylls" in the tenth and final collection of his Briefe zu Beförderung der Humanität are both politically significant and highly revealing of the limitations of Herder's political philosophy. The poems' compassio ...
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Journal articleSchopenhauer Jahrbuch / Schopenhauer Yearbook · 2023
This essay reconstructs Schopenhauer’s understanding of slavery – how he defines it, why he considers it unjust, and under which conditions he thinks it is likely to arise. The essay explains how Schopenhauer views slavery both as a moral and political phe ...
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Journal articleGerman Quarterly · July 1, 2022
In his own era, Arthur Schopenhauer was criticized for his conspicuous lack of patriotism. The critics were correct in the sense that Schopenhauer was a lifelong anti-nationalist in a period of rising cultural and political nationalism. This article recons ...
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Journal articleColloquia Germanica · June 1, 2021
Judith Schalansky’s novel The Giraffe’s Neck (2011) lucidly and trenchantly analyzes the logic underlying a hard turn from leftist to rightist ideology. Schalansky’s narrator is a disoriented and disaffected biology teacher who has experienced the collapse ...
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Journal articleNew German Critique · 2018
In his writings on satire, the Marxist literary critic Georg Lukács argued that hatred could function as an anti-capitalist affect. Hatred, he believed, equips the committed author with a set of traits – certainty, lucidity, endurance, and pitilessness – t ...
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Journal articleGerman Studies Review · February 1, 2015
Christoph Hein's Der fremde Freund, published in the GDR in 1982, counts as a paradigmatic postwar German novella. While the text announces its genre membership explicitly, it fails, or perhaps refuses, to substantiate fully its initial self-categorization ...
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Journal articleJournal of Austrian Studies · 2013
Postwar Austrian literature features an unusual number of writers whose literary attacks are directed at their own nation. How do we explain this high concentration of tirades in Austria? Thomas Bernhard's "Alte Meister" provides a possible answer. For Ber ...
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Journal articleCollege Literature · December 1, 2011
For Hannah Arendt, a crisis occurs when we can no longer rely on the prejudices that ordinarily guide us through the world. Every crisis is, therefore, an occasion to reflect upon tradition. By eroding our shared background beliefe, however, the crisis als ...
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Journal articleModern Austrian Literature · July 14, 2011
Through a reading of Holzfällen, this essay seeks to address a persistent problem in the work of Thomas Bernhard: the curious divergence of critique and rational argument. The novel presents a series of scornful attacks on a variety of people, places, obje ...
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Journal articleArcadia · July 1, 2011
In his comedy Der Schwierige, Hugo von Hofmannsthal imagines a community without chauvinism. The play's main protagonist Count Hans Karl Bhl claims that it is indecent to speak, and even to have experiences, and proposes an attitude of humility that would ...
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Journal article · 2011
Adorno’s Minima Moralia was part of a publishing boom in the genre of advice literature in postwar West Germany. The combination of economic resurgence and attempted cultural restoration resulted in a widespread wish to master forming models of social inte ...
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Journal articleThe German Quarterly · September 2008
Peter Handke's Wunschloses Unglück examines the stereotypical speech patterns that help socialize individuals into stifling roles, but the narrator is gradually forced to recognize his inability to distance himself from t ...
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Journal article · 2007
A short history of coffee, and of civil society. What is it about coffee – and coffeehouses – that makes it so agreeable to the bourgeoisie? asks Jakob Norberg in a brief social history of the dark, rich brew. For Jürgen Habermas, the coffeehouse is a plac ...
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Journal article · 2007
The conduct book stakes out the boundaries of correct behavior, making instructions for self-management available to anyone who strives for easy social integration. Given its close relation to the mores of the educated classes, it is a rather unlikely genr ...
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