Anson Rabinbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 159079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anson Rabinbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anson |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabinbach |
| SIGNATURE | RABINBACH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cooper Union |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Generation Marx
Christina Morina, The Invention of Marxism: How an Idea Changed Everything (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) 557 pp
The European Science Of Work: The Economy Of The Body At The End Of The Nineteenth Century
Social Knowledge, Social Risk, and the Politics of Industrial Accidents in Germany and France
Social Knowledge, Social Risk, and the Politics of Industrial Accidents in Germany and France
Nazi-Looted Art and Its Legacies: Introduction
In early 2012 German officials investigating violations of tax law discovered a trove of mainly nineteenth-and early twentieth-century European paintings and drawings in the Munich apartment and Salzburg house of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of the prominent art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt.The elder Gurlitt had worked for the Nazis but also counted a number of artists despised by them among his friends.Since then, the story of the Gurlitt c…
Introduction: Transatlantic Theory Transfer: Missed Encounters
Introduction| November 01 2017 Introduction: Transatlantic Theory Transfer: Missed Encounters? Andreas Huyssen; Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Anson Rabinbach Anson Rabinbach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162190 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search S…
Nazi Germany and The Humanities: How German Academics Embraced Nazism
In 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany's universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission. The subject of how German scholars responded to the Na…
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Raphael Lemkin et le concept de génocide
Raphael Lemkin and the concept of genocide“Genocide” is a word coined in 1943 to describe what Winston Churchill famously called a “crime without a name”. Its emergence and reception is historically specific to the last years of the World War. The often contested term “genocide” was created by Raphael Lemkin on the basis of his personal and intellectual experiences in the Holocaust and his flight from Warsaw where he served as State Prosecutor un…
Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror
Research Article| February 01 2008 Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror Anson Rabinbach Anson Rabinbach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 97–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anson Rabinbach; Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the…
Moments of Totalitarianism
Hope And Memory: Lessons From The Twentieth Century. By Tzvetan Todorov. Translated by David BellosThe Dictators: Hitler's Germany And Stalin's Russia. By Richard OveryStalinism And Nazism: History And Memory Compared. Edited by Henry Rousso. Translated by Lucy B. Golsan, Thomas C. Hilde, and Peter S. RogersStalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe LewinDid Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions …
Eichmann in New York: The New York Intellectuals and the Hannah Arendt Controversy
April 01 2004 Eichmann in New York: The New York Intellectuals and the Hannah Arendt Controversy Anson Rabinbach Anson Rabinbach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anson Rabinbach Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (108): 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228704774115735 Cite Icon Cit…
Why Were the Jews Sacrificed: The Place of Anti-Semitism in Dialectic of Enlightenment
The penultimate section of Dialectic of Enlightenment, of Anti-Semitism was composed in the summer of 1943, four years after work on the book had begun, and after all the other sections were completed. As was the case with the first chapter, the Elements were a collaborative enterprise. Leo Liwenthal contributed to the first three theses, and it is likely that the remaining three, and certainly the fifth and most original thesis on idiosyncrasy a…
George Mosse and the Culture of Antifascism
A survey of his extensive bibliography reveals that George Mosse wrote very little about the only movement that he ever called his political "Heimat": antifascism. Nonetheless, in his last years, while writing his memoir Confronting History, he returned to the scenes of his youthful engagement on the left, acknowledging that his "political awakening" was due not merely to his being the refugee scion of the eminent Berlin German-Jewish family whos…
In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment
In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment
George L. Mosse 1919–1999: An Appreciation
I first met George Mosse in late August 1967. That summer I carried my worn copy of his book on the roots of Nazi ideology, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (1964), with Hubert Lanzinger's bizarre painting of Hider as a German knight on the cover, to Salzburg where I studied German before going on to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. Though I admired the book, it did not prepare me for meeting t…
A Specter That Will Not Go Away: A Review of Berel Lang, Heidegger's Silence
L'article est consacre au livre de Berel Lang sur Martin Heidegger et son attitude envers l'holocauste apres 1945 (Heidegger's Silence , Ithaca, N.Y., 1996). Ce livre pose le probleme des rapports de Heidegger et de sa pensee avec le nazisme et l'antisemitisme
The End of the Utopias of Labor: Metaphors of the Machine in the Post-Fordist Era
Are we rapidly approaching the end of the work-centered society? This article contends that at the century's end we may witness the disappearance of the great productivist utopias of the 1920s and 1930s. The crisis of productivist systems and ideologies may be far more significant than the more narrowly defined crisis of communism, or of `Fordism', that many critics have identified. Shifts in the forms of metaphor and the technology of work are t…
From Explosion to Erosion: Holocaust Memorialization in America since Bitburg
In the decade since the 1985 Bitburg Affair the United States has become the preeminent nation of official Holocaust remembrance. Widely publicized as evidence of Europe's amnesia about the Holo caust, Bitburg and its intellectual aftershock, the 1986 German histori ans' controversy (Historikerstreit), dramatically heightened the conviction among many U.S. Jews that the mande of guardianship of Holocaust memory had fallen to America.1 Those event…
Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany.Kristie Macrakis
Introduction: Legacies of Antifascism
In the global life and death struggle against fascism there could be no middle ground, no neutral space, and no non-combatants. The negativity of antifascism was the exhilarating intellectual tonic of the epoch. As Klaus Mann wrote in 1938, Fascism - however paradoxical this sounds - makes it easier for us to clarify and define the nature and appearance of what we want. Our vision will oppose, point for point, the practice of fascism. What the la…
Introduction: Cultural History and Cultural Studies: Reflections on a Symposium
This special issue contains a selection of position papers that were presented in the spring of 1994 at a conference on history at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University under the auspices of the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe. The conference was organized by John Czaplicka, guest editor for this issue, and by David Blackbourn with the expert help of Abby Collins and Lisa Eschenbach. The conference papers, most of whic…
"Response to Karen Brecht, "In the Aftermath of Nazi Germany: Alexander Mitscherlich and Psychoanlaysis - Legend and Legacy
American Imago - Volume 52, Number 3, Fall 1995
Intellectual Crisis or Paradigm Shift
Ira's paper begins with an apparent paradox: He agrees with William Sewell's statement that labor history is not in crisis, and yet, the remarkable historical occurrences and the powerful methodological and epistemological challenges of the past decade have produced nothing less than “labor history's loss of élan, directionality, and intellectual purpose.” These developments are so serious that labor historians are encouraged to undertake a drama…
Culture Industry Reconsidered
Eichmann in New York: The New York Intellectuals and the Hannah Arendt Controversy
April 01 2004 Eichmann in New York: The New York Intellectuals and the Hannah Arendt Controversy Anson Rabinbach Anson Rabinbach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anson Rabinbach Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (108): 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228704774115735 Cite Icon Cit…
Why Were the Jews Sacrificed: The Place of Anti-Semitism in Dialectic of Enlightenment
The penultimate section of Dialectic of Enlightenment, of Anti-Semitism was composed in the summer of 1943, four years after work on the book had begun, and after all the other sections were completed. As was the case with the first chapter, the Elements were a collaborative enterprise. Leo Liwenthal contributed to the first three theses, and it is likely that the remaining three, and certainly the fifth and most original thesis on idiosyncrasy a…
Between Enlightenment and Apocalypse: Benjamin, Bloch and Modern German Jewish Messianism
The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich
The attempt to legitimize political rule through aesthetic symbolization is perhaps the decisive characteristic distinguishing twentieth century fascist regimes from other forms of authoritarian domination. Under National Socialism, aesthetics and politics were integrated not only in mass festivals and public architecture, but in the sphere of production as well. Under the slogan - 'the German everyday shall be beautiful,' - the Bureau of Beauty …
The Jewish Question in the German Question
Bitburg and the Historikerstreit are the most recent reminders that the Nazi past continues to resonate in contemporary West German politics. The topos of the singularity of the Holocaust in these highly public confrontations with the past demonstrates, moreover, that the Jewish Question in today's Germany is simultaneously a sovereignty question. Since 1945, every expansion of German sovereignty has, at least symbolically, been linked to a parti…
Unclaimed Heritage: Ernst Bloch's Heritage of Our Times and the Theory of Fascism
Ernst Bloch's Heritage of our Times (Erbschaft dieser Zeit) was written in Zurich and published in 1935.1 It is the expression of the author's double exile: from a Germany with fascism in power and from a Stalinism powerless to comprehend it. Nothing could be a more appropriate description of the circumstances in which the book first appeared than Walter Benjamin's private appraisal: The serious objection which I have of this book (if not of its …
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture …
Politics and Pedagogy: The Austrian Social Democratic Youth Movement 1931-32
In the half decade between the depression and the insurrection of February 1934 the Austrian Social Democratic Party faced a series of challenges to its until then almost uncontested political strategy and hegemony. Only recently has this often discordant and at times even explosive internal history of party begun to emerge.' Perhaps the most important episode in the development of a growing opposition within the party was the emergence of the Ju…
Toward a Marxist Theory of Fascism and National Socialism: A Report on Developments in West Germany
by Anson G. Rabinbach Helpless Anti-Fascism The period after World War II in West Germany was marked by historical amnesia about the era that preceded it. Perhaps no phrase was more indicative of the atmosphere surrounding the entire complex of social and political problems arising out of the Nazi experience than the common expression to terms with the (Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit). This commonplace masked a widespread refusal to take seriousl…
Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror
Research Article| February 01 2008 Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror Anson Rabinbach Anson Rabinbach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 97–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anson Rabinbach; Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the…
Heidegger's Letter on Humanism as Text and Event
L'A. etudie la «Lettre sur l'humanisme» de Heidegger (1947), a partir de laquelle l'A. decrit l'Europe et l'Allemagne de l'apres-guerre
The Politicization of Wilhelm Reich: "An Introduction to "The Sexual Misery of the Working Masses and the Difficulties of Sexual Reform
When Wilhelm Reich decided to leave Vienna for Berlin in 1930, he had completed a period of intense politicization and political activity culminating in his expulsion from the Austrian Social Democratic Party. The three years from 1927 to 1930 were formative for Reich, not only in his theoretical development and his break with Freud, but also in his political development, which coincided with his theoretical transformation, influenced it, and was…
Introduction: Legacies of Antifascism
In the global life and death struggle against fascism there could be no middle ground, no neutral space, and no non-combatants. The negativity of antifascism was the exhilarating intellectual tonic of the epoch. As Klaus Mann wrote in 1938, Fascism - however paradoxical this sounds - makes it easier for us to clarify and define the nature and appearance of what we want. Our vision will oppose, point for point, the practice of fascism. What the la…
Introduction: Cultural History and Cultural Studies: Reflections on a Symposium
This special issue contains a selection of position papers that were presented in the spring of 1994 at a conference on history at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University under the auspices of the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe. The conference was organized by John Czaplicka, guest editor for this issue, and by David Blackbourn with the expert help of Abby Collins and Lisa Eschenbach. The conference papers, most of whic…
Intellectual Crisis or Paradigm Shift
Ira's paper begins with an apparent paradox: He agrees with William Sewell's statement that labor history is not in crisis, and yet, the remarkable historical occurrences and the powerful methodological and epistemological challenges of the past decade have produced nothing less than “labor history's loss of élan, directionality, and intellectual purpose.” These developments are so serious that labor historians are encouraged to undertake a drama…
Science, Work, and Worktime
In the beginning was the Theory. Even before the collapse of Soviet communism, the glow of Marxism in American (and European) universities was beginning to dim. Now we look back on our own investment in Marxism, not always with satisfaction. At best, the theory did not so much fail historians, as historians, in their efforts to redress the lacunae in the theory, wrote around it to the extent that theory ultimately became marginal to their enterpr…
Anti-Semitism Reconsidered: Reply to Piccone and Berman
Piccone and Berman's [hereafter P/B] critique of the special issues of NGC devoted to Germans and Jews presents two major difficulties. First, their specific arguments offer very little evidence that they have even read many of the articles in question. More importantly, in addition to distorting the views of the contributors, they fuse very different articles and essays into an airtight position which is then conveniently characterized as that o…
Lessons of the Holocaust
The recent impact of the American television drama in the Federal Republic of Germany provides the occasion to discuss a theme that has always if not explicitly been present in this journal. Although we have not dealt extensively with the Nazi genocide, or with the problem of historic relations between Germans and Jews, they have often provided a touchstone for many of our discussions, and certainly have informed the work of many of our contribut…
Social Radicalism and the Arts: Western Europe
In the half decade before World War I, the first generation of “modernist” painters proclaimed as their singular and audacious task the rediscovery of truth itself. They were perhaps the first to perceive the importance of the indivisibility of technos and logos in modern capitalism. All former systems of artistic truth — with fixed notions of time, space, nature and beauty — had suddenly become obsolete. As a result, they began a quixotic, frene…
The Politicization of Wilhelm Reich: "An Introduction to "The Sexual Misery of the Working Masses and the Difficulties of Sexual Reform
When Wilhelm Reich decided to leave Vienna for Berlin in 1930, he had completed a period of intense politicization and political activity culminating in his expulsion from the Austrian Social Democratic Party. The three years from 1927 to 1930 were formative for Reich, not only in his theoretical development and his break with Freud, but also in his political development, which coincided with his theoretical transformation, influenced it, and was…
Comments on the Method of Marx's Capital and Its Importance for Contemporary Marxist Scholarship
theorems of this work with the concrete reality of today. Precisely that, it seems to us, is the central task of contemporary Marxist economics. If our contribution has helped in any way to bring to consciousness this theoretical task, then its purpose has been fulfilled. Translated by David Bathrick and Anson Rabinbach
Toward a Marxist Theory of Fascism and National Socialism: A Report on Developments in West Germany
by Anson G. Rabinbach Helpless Anti-Fascism The period after World War II in West Germany was marked by historical amnesia about the era that preceded it. Perhaps no phrase was more indicative of the atmosphere surrounding the entire complex of social and political problems arising out of the Nazi experience than the common expression to terms with the (Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit). This commonplace masked a widespread refusal to take seriousl…
Roman Rosdolsky 1897-1967: An Introduction
Roman Rosdolsky's Comments on the Method of Marx's Capital and its Importance for Contemporary Marxist Scholarship was delivered in September 1967 as the opening paper of the Frankfurt Colloquium commemorating the 100th anniversay of Marx's Capital.1 At this colloquium, held only one month before his death in Detroit, Rosdolsky foreshadowed the posthumous publication of his major work, Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Marxschen Kapital (The Origins …
Problems of a Theory of German Fascism: A Critique of the Dominant Interpretations
Class Structure and Legitimatory Public Sphere: A Hypothesis on the Continued Existence of Class Relationships and the Problem of Legitimation in Transitional Societies
Rainer Paris, Anson G. Rabinbach, Frank Lennox, Class Structure and Legitimatory Public Sphere: A Hypothesis on the Continued Existence of Class Relationships and the Problem of Legitimation in Transitional Societies, New German Critique, No. 5 (Spring, 1975), pp. 149-157
Culture Industry Reconsidered
The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich
The attempt to legitimize political rule through aesthetic symbolization is perhaps the decisive characteristic distinguishing twentieth century fascist regimes from other forms of authoritarian domination. Under National Socialism, aesthetics and politics were integrated not only in mass festivals and public architecture, but in the sphere of production as well. Under the slogan - 'the German everyday shall be beautiful,' - the Bureau of Beauty …
Poulantzas and the Problem of Fascism
Take Heart
Unclaimed Heritage: Ernst Bloch's Heritage of Our Times and the Theory of Fascism
Ernst Bloch's Heritage of our Times (Erbschaft dieser Zeit) was written in Zurich and published in 1935.1 It is the expression of the author's double exile: from a Germany with fascism in power and from a Stalinism powerless to comprehend it. Nothing could be a more appropriate description of the circumstances in which the book first appeared than Walter Benjamin's private appraisal: The serious objection which I have of this book (if not of its …
Politics and Pedagogy: The Austrian Social Democratic Youth Movement 1931-32
In the half decade between the depression and the insurrection of February 1934 the Austrian Social Democratic Party faced a series of challenges to its until then almost uncontested political strategy and hegemony. Only recently has this often discordant and at times even explosive internal history of party begun to emerge.' Perhaps the most important episode in the development of a growing opposition within the party was the emergence of the Ju…
Critique and Commentary / Alchemy and Chemistry: Some Remarks on Walter Benjamin and This Special Issue
Anson Rabinbach, Critique and Commentary / Alchemy and Chemistry: Some Remarks on Walter Benjamin and This Special Issue, New German Critique, No. 17, Special Walter Benjamin Issue (Spring, 1979), pp. 3-14
"Introduction to Walter Benjamin's "Doctrine of the Similar
Walter Benjamin's Doctrine of the Similar was composed in Berlin early in 1933. He did not return to this text until the following summer in Ibiza.' By that time personal and political circumstances had changed dramatically. He was in exile, separated from his books and manuscripts, and the earlier text had to be retrieved from Gershom Scholem, who returned a copy of the original from Jerusalem. The second version, On the Mimetic Faculty, was not…
Anti-Semitism Reconsidered: Reply to Piccone and Berman
Piccone and Berman's [hereafter P/B] critique of the special issues of NGC devoted to Germans and Jews presents two major difficulties. First, their specific arguments offer very little evidence that they have even read many of the articles in question. More importantly, in addition to distorting the views of the contributors, they fuse very different articles and essays into an airtight position which is then conveniently characterized as that o…
Lessons of the Holocaust
The recent impact of the American television drama in the Federal Republic of Germany provides the occasion to discuss a theme that has always if not explicitly been present in this journal. Although we have not dealt extensively with the Nazi genocide, or with the problem of historic relations between Germans and Jews, they have often provided a touchstone for many of our discussions, and certainly have informed the work of many of our contribut…
Georges Haupt: History and the Socialist Tradition
For those of us who knew him, Georges Haupt's most enduring legacy will be his extraordinary personal warmth, his energy and his excitement. He had a remarkable ability to spark, to fertilize and to create links across the globe. For him the history of the labor movement was never only an individual preoccupation, though it was his personal passion. He always saw his work as a collective endeavor and it was through his example that he made all of…
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis. A History of Austrian National Socialism . Bruce F. Pauley
The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1727-1934
The Austrian Civil War of 1934: Harvard and Vienna Conferences
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Germans, Leftists, Jews
That anti-Semitism has nothing to do withJews has been noted; this is even more the case with the Jewish debate that has recently emerged*in West Germany. Touched off by a special issue of the Berlin journal, Asthetik und Kommunikation entitled, Germans, Leftists, Jews,' the newJewish problem has to do with German responsibility, guilt, the generational conflict, national identity, etc. The fate of the Jews as such has played almost no role. Neve…
The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934
The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934
Between Enlightenment and Apocalypse: Benjamin, Bloch and Modern German Jewish Messianism
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