Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-566) and index.
Contents:
40. After Kracauer's Death. 2. Early Things: Before 1918 -- 3. Revolution, the Frankfurter Zeitung and Cultural Criticism around 1920 -- 4. Friendship (Part 1): The Jewish Renaissance in Frankfurt -- 5. Friendship (Part 2): The One Who Waits -- 6. The Crisis of the Sciences, Sociology and the Sphere Theory -- 7. Friendship (Part 3): Passion and the Path towards the Profane -- 8. The Rebirth of Marxism in Philosophy -- 9. Kracauer Goes to the Movies: A Medium for the Masses and a Medium for Modernity -- 10. At the Feuilleton of the Frankfurter Zeitung -- 11. Inflation and Journeys into Porosity -- 12. Transitional Years: Economic Upturn, Revolt, Enlightenment -- 13. The Primacy of the Optical: Architecture, Images of Space, Films -- 14. Ginster, Georg and the Salaried Masses -- 15. The Idea as Bearer of the Group: The Philosophical Quartet -- 16. Berlin circa 1930: In the Midst of the Political Melee -- 17. The Trial -- 18. Europe on the Move: Refugees in France -- 19. The Liquidation of German Matters -- 20. Two Views on the Second Empire: Offenbach and the Arcades -- 21. The Disintegration of the Group -- 22. Songs of Woe from Frankfurt -- 23. La Vie Parisienne -- 24. The `Institute for Social Falsification' -- 25. Vanishing Point: America -- 26. Fleeing from France, a Last Minute Exit from Lisbon -- 27. Arrival in New York -- 28. Define Your Enemy: What is National Socialism? -- 29. Know Your Enemy: Psychological Warfare -- 30. Fear Your Enemy: Deportation and Killing of the Jews -- 31. Fuck Your Enemy: From Hitler to Caligari -- 32. Cultural Critic, Social Scientist, Supplicant -- 33. The Aesthetics of Film as Cultural Studies -- 34. Two Boxes from Paris -- 35. Working as a Consultant in the Social Sciences and Humanities -- 36. Mail from Germany, Letters from the Past, Travels in Europe -- 37. The Practice of Film Theory and the Theory of Film -- 38. Talks with Teddie and Old Friends -- 39. Time for the Things before the Last -- 40. After Kracauer's Death.
Summary:
"The first definitive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most important cultural theorists"-- Provided by publisher.
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