Reluctant Skeptic : : Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture / / Harry T. Craver.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Craver, Harry T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction. Kracauer on and in Weimar Modernity --; Chapter 1. “Location Suggests Content”: Kracauer on the Fringe of Religious Revival --; Chapter 2. Reading the War, Writing Crisis --; Chapter 3. From Copenhagen to Baker Street: Kracauer, Kierkegaard, and the Detective Novel --; Chapter 4. Religion on the Street: Kracauer and Religious Flânerie --; Conclusion. Criticism in the Negative Church --; Afterword. From Don Quixote to Sancho Panza --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785334597; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785334597?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Harry T. Craver.

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 of the 1920s.