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Siegfried Kracauer, or, The Allegories of Improvisation

Siegfried Kracauer, or, The Allegories of Improvisation Critical Studies - Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9783030679675
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 834.912
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 239
Weight: 339g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 14mm