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Item Open Access Adorno's Advice: Minima Moralia and the Critique of Liberalism(PMLA-PUBLICATIONS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, 2011-03) Norberg, JItem Open Access Anticapitalist affect: Georg Lukács on satire and hate(New German Critique, 2018-11-01) Norberg, JItem Open Access Arendt in crisis: Political thought in between past and future(College Literature, 2011-12-01) Norberg, JFor 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 also weakens our ability to communicate and cooperate with each other. The crisis thus confronts us with the question of what community is possible when we do not have anything in common. Arendt's own answer is found in the community of judgment. Insofar as reflective judgments involve soliciting the potential agreement of others, they confirm that some common ground remains despite the loss of shared prejudices. Indeed, only when we cannot take consensus for granted are we truly attentive to others. By focusing on the tenuous togetherness of crisis, Arendt's work shows us that groups supported by shared values, traditions, and purposes are not necessarily political in nature.Item Open Access Berlin som mnemotekniskt hjälpmedel: Walter Benjamin och Franz Hessel(Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 2011) Norberg, JItem Open Access Creative destruction: Karl kraus and the paradox of satire(Seminar - A Journal of Germanic Studies, 2013-02-01) Norberg, JItem Open Access Der Text als Phrase: Schillerfeier und geflügelte Worte(Sprache and Literatur, 2013) Norberg, JItem Open Access Disappearing Socialism: Volker Braun’s Unvollendete Geschichte.(Monatshefte: fuer deutschsprachige literatur und kultur, 2010) Norberg, JItem Open Access German Literary Studies and the Nation(German Quarterly, 2018-12-01) Norberg, J© 2018, American Association of Teachers of German This paper argues that German literary studies was, from its inception, an entirely nationalist and nation-building endeavor, perhaps the quintessential nationalist project. Among the discipline's foundational premises are its belief in and commitment to a diversity of culturally individuated national communities (rather than one uniform humanity), a non-hierarchical plurality of vernaculars (rather than classical languages), and historically inflected and culturally expressive aesthetic forms (rather than transhistorically and transregionally valid templates of excellence). Three disciplinary activities of early Germanistik—Germanic historical linguistics, vernacular canon formation, and national literary history—are introduced as key instruments of nationalization. In conclusion, the paper claims that contemporary German Studies in the US, thankfully a reflective and critical enterprise, nonetheless remains institutionally completely dependent on the paradigm of the linguistically and culturally defined nation.Item Open Access Late Socialism as a Narrative Problem: Christoph Hein and the Limits of the Novella(GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, 2015-02) Norberg, JItem Open Access No Coffee(Fronesis, 2007) Norberg, JItem Open Access On Display: Conditions of Critique in Austria(Journal of Austrian Studies, 2013) Norberg, JPostwar 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 Bernhard, the work of art is the primary object of critical judgments. The crucial site for this critical judgment is the museum, since it puts artworks on display in a nonreligious context, as artifacts divested of sacred meaning. Bernhard's novel indicates that Austria as a whole has become the object of sustained critique because it has elevated the museum to the status of the paradigmatic state institution. The critical judgments of authors are directed toward Austria because this nation puts itself on display for citizens and tourists alike, and has turned itself into an object of critical assesment. As a country that appears as a museum, Austrian is not necessarily the worst of nations, but perhaps the most criticizable.Item Open Access Political Concepts(2013) Norberg, JItem Open Access Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Theory After 1945(2014-01-01) Norberg, JItem Open Access The banality of narrative: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem(TEXTUAL PRACTICE, 2013-08-01) Norberg, JItem Open Access The black book: Karl Kraus's etiquette(Modern Austrian Literature, 2007-12-01) Norberg, JThe 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 genre to employ for the misanthrope looking to repudiate society. Yet in a series of articles in 1905/06 in his journal Die Fackel, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus alluded to this genre, sharpening its rules to the point of absurdity as a means to completely close down rather than facilitate societal exchange. In Kraus's etiquette, bad manners come to include all manners. The study of this little-known project enables us to understand Kraus's obsessive preoccupation with clichéed speech as a critical response to the pathologies of communal life around 1900. © 2007 by the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association.Item Open Access The Cliché as Critique and Complaint(University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts, 2014-05) Norberg, JThe cliché is a peripheral term in our critical vocabulary. Reviewers, critics, and editors speak of clichés, but dictionaries of critical terms rarely provide entries on the word. This paper asks whether pointing out clichés represents a form of critique or whether it is just quibbling, and how we draw the line between scrutiny and pedantry.Item Open Access The Discreet Community Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige(ARCADIA, 2011-07) Norberg, JItem Open Access THE POLITICAL THEORY OF THE CLICHE HANNAH ARENDT READING ADOLF EICHMANN(CULTURAL CRITIQUE, 2010) Norberg, JItem Open Access The truncated road movie: Thomas Brasch and the Berlin Wall(Baltic Worlds, 2012) Norberg, JItem Open Access The Unconscionable Critic: Thomas Bernhard's Holzfällen(Modern Austrian Literature, 2011-07-14) Gellen, K; Norberg, JThrough 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, objects, and activities, but consistently withholds reasoned explanations, thus precluding any possible agreement with or acceptance of the views expressed in it. Scholars have proved unable to reconcile the unfairness, exaggeration, and disparateness of the narrator's claims with the novel's critical framework. By examining the discourse of affect in Holzfällen, the authors argue that it presents a form of critique whose central principle is the maintenance of social distance. The narrator wants neither to persuade nor to reform others, but rather to describe and enact a process of disentanglement and departure. © 2011 Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association.