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Reluctant skeptic : Siegfried Kracauer and the crises of Weimar culture /

"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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Craver, Harry T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Colección:Spektrum (New York, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.