Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature[...]

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photograph[...]

Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a nave 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 Jrgen Habe[...]

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,[...]

Mit der erkenntnistheoretischen Abhandlung Soziologie als Wissenschaft (1922), dem zu Lebzeiten des Autors unpublizierten philosophischen Traktat Der Detektiv-Roman (1922-25) und der bahnbrechenden soziologischen Untersuchung Die Angestellten (1929/30) vereinigt dieser Band die drei erhaltenen [...]

Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) ist einer der herausragenden Theoretiker der modernen Popul?ultur. Seine Filmgeschichte der Weimarer Republik ?Von Caligari zu Hitler?, seine ?Theorie des Films? und Essays wie ?Die kleinen Ladenm?hen gehen ins Kino? z?en heute zu den Standardwerken der Medienwissensch[...]