Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction

by Gertrud Koch and Jeremy Gaines

Book Overview

Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a na ve 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 J rgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Max Horkheimer. Recently, however, scholars have rediscovered in Kracauer's writings a philosopher, sociologist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691049920
• ISBN13: 9780691049922
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"