Adorno’s “Education after Auschwitz” was central to German re-education, especially for leftist critics of post-genocidal Germany. That his warning against a new “reason of state” is now ignored even by academic elites exposes the hollowness of German memory politics—while Gaza is being destroyed.
George Eliots letzter Roman Daniel Deronda von 1876 war ein protozionistisches Manifest. Die zu gründende jüdische Nation erscheint als biologistisch-spiritueller Gegenentwurf zum dekadenten, «perversen» Kosmopolitismus der Europäer – und als Muster für einen ethnisch reinen Nationalstaat.
In 1956, the ballet dancer Tanaquil Le Clercq gets polio and never dances in Afternoon of a Faun again. In 1967, Robert Motherwell finds grace in open rectangles. In 2002, a pop song’s quadrilateral refrain says “Dream About Me” on its missing side. In 2025, a critic must revoke her practice.