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Kracauer
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Author : Jörg Später
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-06-11
Kracauer written by Jörg Später and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with Philosophy categories.
Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated many of the themes later developed members of the Frankfurt School and other cultural theorists. No less remarkable were the circumstances under which he made these contributions. After his early years as a journalist in Germany, the rise of the Nazis forced Kracauer into exile – first in Paris and then, after a protracted flight via Marseilles and Lisbon, to the United States. The existential challenges, personal losses and unrelenting hardship Kracauer faced during these years of exile formed the backdrop against which he offered his acute observations of modern life. Jörg Später provides the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary man. Based on extensive archival research, Später’s biography expertly traces the key influences on Kracauer’s intellectual development and presents his most important works and ideas with great clarity. At the same time, Später ably documents the intensity of Kracauer’s personal relationships, the trauma of his flight and exile, and his embrace of his new homeland, where, finally, the ‘groundlessness’ of refugee existence gave way to a more stable life and, with it, some of the intellectually most fruitful years of Kracauer’s career. The result is a vivid portrait of a man driven both by an urge to capture reality – to attend to the things that are ‘overlooked or misjudged’, that still ‘lack a name’, as he put it – and by a need to find his place in a hostile, threatening world.
Siegfried Kracauer
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Author : Graeme Gilloch
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Siegfried Kracauer written by Graeme Gilloch and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Social Science categories.
This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It is part of a timely revival and reappraisal of his unique contribution to our critical understanding of modernity, the interrogation of mass culture, and the recognition of both the dynamism and diminution of human experience in the hustle and bustle of the contemporary metropolis. In stressing the extraordinary variety of Kracauer’s writings (from scholarly philosophical treatises to journalistic fragments, from comic novels to classified reports) and the dazzling diversity of his themes (from science and urban architectural visions to slapstick and dancing girls), this insightful book reveals his fundamental and formative influence upon Critical Theory and argues for his vital relevance for cultural analysis today. Kracauer’s work is distinguished by an acute sensitivity to the ‘surface manifestations’ of popular culture and a witty, eminently readable literary style. In exploring and making accessible the work of this remarkable thinker, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students working in many disciplines and interdisciplinary fields: sociology and social theory; film, media and cultural studies; urban studies, cultural geography and architectural theory; philosophy and Critical Theory.
Deutsches W Rterbuch
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Author : Jacob Grimm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Deutsches W Rterbuch written by Jacob Grimm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with German language categories.
Ornaments Of The Metropolis
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Author : Henrik Reeh
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2006-09-08
Ornaments Of The Metropolis written by Henrik Reeh and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-08 with Architecture categories.
Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life. For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer deciphers the subjective experience of the city by viewing fragments of the city as dynamic ornaments; an employment exchange, a day shelter for the homeless, a movie theater, and an amusement park become urban microcosms. Reeh focuses on three substantial works written by Kracauer before his emigration to the United States in 1940. In the early autobiographical novel Ginster, Written by Himself, a young architect finds aesthetic pleasure in the ornamental forms that are largely unused in the profession of the time. The collection Streets of Berlin and Elsewhere, with many essays from Kracauer's years in Berlin, documents the subjectiveness of urban life. Finally, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time shows how the superficial—in a sense, ornamental—milieu of the operetta evolved into a critical force during the Second Empire. Reeh argues that Kracauer's novel, essays, and historiography all suggest ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life. The book also includes a series of photographs by the author that reflect the ornamental experience of the metropolis in Paris, Frankfurt, and other cities.
Siegfried Kracauer Or The Allegories Of Improvisation
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Author : Miguel Vedda
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-13
Siegfried Kracauer Or The Allegories Of Improvisation written by Miguel Vedda and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Political Science categories.
This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer’s work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the reflections on the crisis of the subject and the emergence of a new subjectivity, the new forms of perception and aesthetic behaviour in late capitalism, the function of critic-intellectuals, the sociology of the middle classes, the theory of fascism, the aesthetical and sociological reflections on literary genres, the politicization of melancholy. An original feature of this book is the attention it pays to the links between Kracauer’s theoretical and critical writings and the traditions of heterodox Marxism, against a habitual tendency to obliterate the political (and emancipatory) dimension in the German author.
Ginster
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Author : Siegfried Kracauer
language : de
Publisher: Suhrkamp Verlag
Release Date : 2013-02-18
Ginster written by Siegfried Kracauer and has been published by Suhrkamp Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-18 with Fiction categories.
Ein »Drückeberger« als Held: Ginster ist 25, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht, ein begabter Frankfurter Architekt. Der patriotischen Begeisterung seiner Zeitgenossen steht er skeptisch gegenüber, und so verwendet er einige Mühe darauf, sich immer wieder vom Kriegsdienst zurückstellen zu lassen – das Vaterland braucht seine Architekten schließlich nicht an der Front, sondern zu Hause, wo etwa Granatfabriken und Ehrenfriedhöfe für die gefallenen Soldaten zu planen sind. Doch dann ereilt auch Ginster der Gestellungsbefehl. Weit weg von den Schlachtfeldern lernt er, mit militärischer Präzision ein Bett zu bauen, zu schießen und »gegen die Feinde Kartoffeln zu schälen«. Und es festigt sich in ihm die Überzeugung, dass all diese Übungen nicht dem Krieg dienen, sondern der ganze Krieg ein Vorwand für die Übungen ist. Im Frankfurt des Ersten Weltkriegs spielt dieser Roman, der den literarischen Ruhm seines Autors begründete. Es ist das faszinierende Porträt eines Mannes, dessen Haltung zur Welt und ihren Widersprüchen oft mit Chaplin und Keaton verglichen worden ist.
Cool Conduct
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Author : Helmut Lethen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-03-27
Cool Conduct written by Helmut Lethen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-27 with History categories.
"Lethen brilliantly interprets New Objectivity as a tactical response to the need for a 'code of conduct' in an age of anxiety about values and normative judgments. Moving effortlessly between analysis of philosophical texts and literary works, he charts an increasingly popular field of cultural studies: how cultural discourses shape behavior. One of the most original and daring contributions to Weimar scholarship and to the study of modernity in general in a decade."—Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley "Lethen is probably the most original and outstanding scholar writing in German today about Weimar literature and culture. He traces the figure of the 'cold persona' as part of a broader discourse of anthropological, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions. The book is written in a personal voice, witty, lucid, and unpretentious."—Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago
Spatial Turns
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Author : Jaimey Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2010
Spatial Turns written by Jaimey Fisher and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.
Culture In The Anteroom
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Author : Gerd Gemünden
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2012-05-07
Culture In The Anteroom written by Gerd Gemünden and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with History categories.
Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visual culture. This interdisciplinary anthology---including pieces from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schl pmann---brings together literary and film scholars, historians and art historians, sociologists, and architects to address the scope and current relevance of a body of work dedicated to investigating all aspects of modernism and modernity. The contributors approach Kracauer's writings from a variety of angles, some by placing them in dialogue with his contemporaries in Weimar Germany and the New York Intellectuals of the 1940s and '50s; others by exploring relatively unknown facets of Kracauer's oeuvre by considering his contributions to architectural history, the history of radio as well as other new media, and museum and exhibition culture.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Wild And Cultivated Plants In Latin English French Spanish Italian Dutch And German
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Author : W. E. Clason
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Company
Release Date : 1989
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Wild And Cultivated Plants In Latin English French Spanish Italian Dutch And German written by W. E. Clason and has been published by Elsevier Science Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Botany categories.
Hardbound. Listed in this multilingual dictionary are the scientific names of wild and cultivated plants found in Europe. As the scientific names are most widely used internationally in the field of botany, these are given first with their vernacular names in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German.The dictionary has been compiled with particular attention given to the wide and varied floras found in Italy and Great Britain, as these provide a solid representation of the flora of temperate and alpine zones. Additional names have been added when encountered, but rare plants have not been listed. A literal translation of the scientific name has been given in the cases where a name of a plant in a particular language - especially Spanish - did not seem to exist, or could not be found in the consulted sources. The user will find this dictionary of considerable value as an aid to translation work.