03606nam 2200865 450 991082571440332120180815080635.01-78920-836-X10.1515/9781785334597(CKB)3710000001123513(MiAaPQ)EBC4873369(DE-B1597)636552(DE-B1597)9781785334597(EXLCZ)99371000000112351320170713h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReluctant skeptic Siegfried Kracauer and the crises of Weimar culture /Harry T. CraverNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn Books,2017.©20171 online resource (284 pages)Spektrum : Publications of the German Studies Association1-78533-458-1 1-78533-459-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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."--Provided by publisherSpektrum (New York, N.Y.)Kracauer, Siegfried - Criticism and interpretationHISTORY / Europe / GermanybisacshGermanyIntellectual life20th century1920s culture.20th century.cinema.cinematography.college.contemporary questions.contextualizes kracauer.cultural anthropology.engaging.european literature.famous journalist.film and media.film history.film studies.frankfurt school.german film.german movies.journalism.kracauer.lit crit.philosophy.pop culture.popular media.quasi-theology.school.secular modernity.textbook.theodor adorno.weimar-era.Kracauer, Siegfried - Criticism and interpretation.HISTORY / Europe / Germany.834/.912MQ 3433rvkCraver Harry T.1598989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825714403321Reluctant skeptic3921513UNINA