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Reluctant Skeptic: Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Harry T. Craver
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Description for Reluctant Skeptic: Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Hardback. This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer's early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era's cultural ferment. Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785334580
SKU
V9781785334580
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About Harry T. Craver
Harry T. Craver holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His work has appeared in publications such as New German Critique.
Reviews for Reluctant Skeptic: Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Unpretentiously written and based on a judicious interpretation of a wide range of materials, Reluctant Skeptic contributes to our understanding not only of Siegfried Kracauer's intellectual development, but also of Weimar culture as a whole.
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley