001436639 000__ 03884cam\a2200517\a\4500 001436639 001__ 1436639 001436639 003__ OCoLC 001436639 005__ 20230309004105.0 001436639 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001436639 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001436639 008__ 210518s2021\\\\sz\\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 001436639 019__ $$a1252420141 001436639 020__ $$a9783030679651$$q(electronic bk.) 001436639 020__ $$a3030679659$$q(electronic bk.) 001436639 020__ $$z3030679640 001436639 020__ $$z9783030679644 001436639 0247_ $$a10.1007/978-3-030-67965-1$$2doi 001436639 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)1251507710 001436639 040__ $$aYDX$$beng$$epn$$cYDX$$dGW5XE$$dEBLCP$$dOCLCO$$dOCLCF$$dUKMGB$$dN$T$$dUKAHL$$dOCLCQ 001436639 049__ $$aISEA 001436639 050_4 $$aJA71 001436639 08204 $$a320.101$$223 001436639 1001_ $$aVedda, Miguel Angel. 001436639 24510 $$aSiegfried Kracauer, or, the allegories of improvisation :$$bcritical studies /$$cMiguel Vedda. 001436639 260__ $$aCham :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2021. 001436639 300__ $$a1 online resource 001436639 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001436639 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001436639 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001436639 4901_ $$aMarx, Engels, and Marxisms,$$x2524-7123 001436639 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 001436639 5050_ $$a1. Introduction: On Kracauer's Essays and the Contemporary Significance of Dialectics -- 2. A Philosophy of Rootlesness: The Youn Kracauer as a Critic of George Simmel -- 3. The Novel of a Melancholy Outcast: On Ginster -- 4. Allegories of Improvisation: Streets in Berlin and Elsewhere -- 5. Fascism as a Farce of Farce: Totalitarian Progaganda -- 6. The Tradition of the Lost Causes: History, The Last Things Before the Last -- 7. "The Great Rift of the World": Siefried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Discussions about the Character and Function of Critic-Intellectuals -- 8. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of the Fairy Tale -- 9. Anatomies of Melancholy: Acedia and Alienation in Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer -- 10. Decline and Fall of the Short Novel? Vicissitudes of a Genre in the Modern German Narrative -- 11. The Historian in the Anteroom: Configurations of the Intellectual in the Late Discussions Between Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor W. Adorno. 001436639 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001436639 520__ $$aThis book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer's work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the reflections on the crisis of the subject and the emergence of a new subjectivity, the new forms of perception and aesthetic behaviour in late capitalism, the function of critic-intellectuals, the sociology of the middle classes, the theory of fascism, the aesthetical and sociological reflections on literary genres, the politicization of melancholy. An original feature of this book is the attention it pays to the links between Kracauer's theoretical and critical writings and the traditions of heterodox Marxism, against a habitual tendency to obliterate the political (and emancipatory) dimension in the German author. Miguel Vedda is Full Professor of the chair of German Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Principal Researcher of the Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). 001436639 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 25, 2021). 001436639 60010 $$aKracauer, Siegfried,$$d1889-1966. 001436639 650_0 $$aPolitical science$$xPhilosophy. 001436639 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 001436639 77608 $$iPrint version:$$z3030679640$$z9783030679644$$w(OCoLC)1227382672 001436639 830_0 $$aMarx, Engels, and Marxisms,$$x2524-7123 001436639 852__ $$bebk 001436639 85640 $$3Springer Nature$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-67965-1$$zOnline Access$$91397441.1 001436639 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1436639$$pGLOBAL_SET 001436639 980__ $$aBIB 001436639 980__ $$aEBOOK 001436639 982__ $$aEbook 001436639 983__ $$aOnline 001436639 994__ $$a92$$bISE