Description: Reluctant Skeptic by Harry T. Craver This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauers early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the eras cultural ferment. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T. Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauers early output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural ferment of the 1920s. Author Biography Harry T. Craver holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His work has appeared in publications such as New German Critique. Table of Contents PrefaceIntroduction: Kracauer on and in Weimar ModernityChapter 1. "Location Suggests Content": Kracauer on the Fringe of Religious RevivalChapter 2. Reading the War, Writing CrisisChapter 3. From Copenhagen to Baker Street: Kracauer, Kierkegaard and the Detective NovelChapter 4. Religion on the Street: Kracauer and Religious FlânerieConclusion: Criticism in the Negative ChurchAfterword: From Don Quixote to Sancho PanzaBibliographyIndex Review "Harry Cravers rich and nuanced study revisits Kracauers nonconformist views and underscores the religious context in which they emerged… In portraying Kracauers reections on religious concepts as emblematic of post–World War I German intellectual life, Craver sets the stage for a novel, intriguing discussion of Weimar modernity and its crisis." • American Historical Review"Reluctant Skeptic opens a window into a moment and a place in time through in-depth analysisof Kracauers polyphonic engagement with pressing contemporary questions and the role of the critic in assessing them. It makes no claim that Kracauers perceptions of secularization and religion offer the paramount vantage point from which to take the measure of the crises we associate with Weimar, and it acknowledges that Kracauers attentiveness to religion ebbed in the later 1920s. It succeeds admirably in creating an intellectual milieu analogous to the socio-cultural or socio-denominational milieus explored in studies of Weimar political culture It also offers a fresh perspective on the intellectual uncertainties of the post-war era." • German History"In great and fascinating detail, Craver guides his readers through the confused intellectual landscape that was Weimar Germany and the confusing currents that swirled through Kracauers deeply fissured consciousness." • Journal of European Studies"Unpretentiously written and based on a judicious interpretation of a wide range of materials, Reluctant Skeptic contributes to our understanding not only of Siegfried Kracauers intellectual development, but also of Weimar culture as a whole." • Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley Review Quote "Unpretentiously written and based on a judicious interpretation of a wide range of materials, Reluctant Skeptic contributes to our understanding not only of Siegfried Kracauers intellectual development, but also of Weimar culture as a whole." Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley Details ISBN1785334581 Author Harry T. Craver Publisher Berghahn Books Series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association Year 2017 ISBN-10 1785334581 ISBN-13 9781785334580 Format Hardcover Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 834.912 Pages 294 Short Title Reluctant Skeptic Language English Series Number 14 Publication Date 2017-02-01 AU Release Date 2017-02-01 NZ Release Date 2017-02-01 UK Release Date 2017-02-01 Translator Kathleen List Edited by Donathan L. Brown Birth 1945 Affiliation Georgia Institute of Technology Position Kranzberg Professor Qualifications SJ Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126578049;
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