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Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naïve realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle of famed Frankfurt School critical theorists Jürgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Max Horkheimer. Recently, however, scholars have rediscovered in Kracauer's writings a philosopher, sociologist, and film theorist important beyond his associations--and perhaps one of the most significant cultural critics of the twentieth century. Gertrud Koch advances this Kracauer renaissance with the first-ever critical assessment of his entire body of work. Koch's analysis, which is concise without sacrificing thoroughness or sophistication, covers both Kracauer's best-known publications (e.g., From Caligari to Hitler, in which he gleans the roots of National Socialism in the films of the Weimar Republic) and previously underexamined texts, including two newly discovered autobiographical novels. Because Kracauer's wide-ranging works emerge from no rigidly unified approach, instead always remaining open to unusual and highly individual perspectives, Koch resists the temptation to force generalization. She does, however, identify recurring tropes in Kracauer's lifetime effort to perceive the basic posture and composition of particular cultures through their visual surfaces. Koch also finds in Kracauer a surprisingly contemporary cultural commentator, whose ideas speak directly to current discussions on film, urban modernity, feminism, cultural representation, violence, and other themes. This book was long-awaited in Germany, as well as widely and well reviewed. Now translated into English for the first time, it will fuel already growing interest in the United States, where Kracauer lived and wrote from 1941 until his death in 1966. It will attract the attention of students and scholars working in Film Studies, German Studies, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and History.

Motion pictures. --- Kracauer, Siegfried, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Germany --- Intellectual life --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- History and criticism --- Ginster, --- Kracauer, S. --- Krakauėr, Z. --- Krakauėr, Zigfrid --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts

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This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer’s work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the reflections on the crisis of the subject and the emergence of a new subjectivity, the new forms of perception and aesthetic behaviour in late capitalism, the function of critic-intellectuals, the sociology of the middle classes, the theory of fascism, the aesthetical and sociological reflections on literary genres, the politicization of melancholy. An original feature of this book is the attention it pays to the links between Kracauer’s theoretical and critical writings and the traditions of heterodox Marxism, against a habitual tendency to obliterate the political (and emancipatory) dimension in the German author. Miguel Vedda is Full Professor of the chair of German Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Principal Researcher of the Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). .

Kracauer, Siegfried, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ginster, --- Kracauer, S. --- Krakauėr, Z. --- Krakauėr, Zigfrid --- Political science. --- Political sociology. --- Political science --- Political Theory. --- Political Sociology. --- Political Philosophy. --- Political philosophy --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Sociology --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Philosophy. --- Sociological aspects

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German literature --- Individuality in literature --- 830 "19" --- 830 "19" Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- History and criticism --- Canetti, Elias, --- Kracauer, Siegfried, --- Musil, Robert --- Canetti, Elias --- Kanetti, Elias, --- Канети, Елиас, --- Kaneti, Elias, --- Ginster, --- Kracauer, S. --- Krakauėr, Z. --- Krakauėr, Zigfrid --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Psychological study of literature --- Kracauer, Siegfried --- Musel, Robert, --- Muzilʹ, Robert, --- Музиль, Роберт,

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Sociology of culture --- Simmel, Georg --- Kracauer, Siegfried --- Benjamin, Walter --- Culture --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Modernisme (Esthétique) --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Kracauer, Siegfried, --- Simmel, Georg, --- Views on modernism (Aesthetics) --- -Cultural sociology --- Civilization --- Aesthetics --- Social aspects --- -Kracauer, Siegfried --- -Benjamin, Walter --- -Benjamin, W. --- Philosophy. --- Modernism (Aesthetics). --- -Philosophy --- -Views on modernism (Aesthetics) --- Modernisme (Esthétique) --- Zimmelʹ, Georg, --- Zimmelʹ, G. --- Simmel, G. --- זימל, גיאורג, --- Jinmeru, Georuku, --- Ginster, --- Kracauer, S. --- Krakauėr, Z. --- Krakauėr, Zigfrid --- Benjamin, W. --- ジムメル, ゲオルク --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터,

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Frankfurt school of sociology. --- German literature --- Literature and society. --- History and criticism. --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Frankfurt school --- Frankfurt sociologists --- Schools of sociology --- Critical theory --- Marxian school of sociology --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Bloch, Ernst, --- Kracauer, Siegfried, --- Ginster, --- Kracauer, S. --- Krakauėr, Z. --- Krakauėr, Zigfrid --- Benjamin, W. --- Wiesengrund, Theodor, --- Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor, --- Adorno, Teodor V., --- Adorŭno, --- אדורנו, תאודור --- אדורנו, ת. ו. --- Adorno, Th. W. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Benjamin, Walter --- Bloch, Ernst --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터,