Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

Johannes von Moltke,Gerd Gemunden

Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Country
United States
Published
7 May 2012
Pages
304
ISBN
9780472071678

Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

Johannes von Moltke,Gerd Gemunden

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 Schlupmann-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.

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