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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825714403321

Autore

Craver Harry T.

Titolo

Reluctant skeptic : Siegfried Kracauer and the crises of Weimar culture / / Harry T. Craver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78920-836-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages)

Collana

Spektrum : Publications of the German Studies Association

Classificazione

MQ 3433

Disciplina

834/.912

Soggetti

Kracauer, Siegfried - Criticism and interpretation

HISTORY / Europe / Germany

Germany Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Kracauer on and in Weimar modernity -- "Location suggests content": Kracauer on the fringe of religious revival -- Reading the war, writing crisis -- From Copenhagen to Baker Street: Kracauer, Kierkegaard, and the detective novel -- Religion on the street: Kracauer and religious Fl?nerie -- Conclusion. Criticism in the negative church -- Afterword: from Don Quixote to Sancho Panza.

Sommario/riassunto

"The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T. Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer's early output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural ferment on the 1920s."--