Siegfried Kracauer, Or, the Allegories of Improvisation: Critical Studies

By Miguel Vedda

Book Overview

1. Introduction: On Kracauer's Essays and the Contemporary Significance of Dialectics.
Part I
2. A Philosophy of Rootlesness: The Youn Kracauer as a Critic of George Simmel
3. The Novel of a Melancholy Outcast: On Ginster
4. Allegories of Improvisation: Streets in Berlin and Elsewhere
5. Fascism as a Farce of Farce: Totalitarian Progaganda
6. The Tradition of the Lost Causes: History, The Last Things Before the Last
Part II
7. "The Great Rift of the World" Siefried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Discussions about the Character and Function of Critic-Intellectuals
8. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of the Fairy Tale
9. Anatomies of Melancholy: Acedia and Alienation in Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer
10. Decline and Fall of the Short Novel? Vicissitudes of a Genre in the Modern German Narrative
11. The Historian in the Anteroom: Configurations of the Intellectual in the Late Discussions Between Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor W. Adorno

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030679675
• ISBN13: 9783030679675
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"