Reluctant Skeptic : : Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture / / 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 l...

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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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