Culture in the Anteroom : The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer [1 ed.] 9780472028153, 9780472051670

Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as

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Culture in the Anteroom : The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer [1 ed.]
9780472028153, 9780472051670

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In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesio

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The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular m

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Jesse Matz considers its two legacies—positive and negative—to explain impressionism’s true contemporary significance.

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Kracauer. Film, medium of a disintegrating world ; Curious Americanism -- Benjamin. Actuality, antinomies ; Aura: the ap

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How a French writer shaped his country’s understanding of its identity and global status in the twentieth century. And

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In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern per

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What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic

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Siegfried Kracauer was one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and his influence

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