Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings

Siegfried Kracauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 45
• Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-tw... Lees meer

Rosenzweig and Heidegger

Peter Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 33
• Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissa... Lees meer

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany

Steven E Aschheim

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 2
• Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these effo... Lees meer

Art of Suppression

Pamela M Potter

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 50
• This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research ha... Lees meer

In the Shadow of Catastrophe

Anson Rabinbach

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 14
• These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German p... Lees meer

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Peter Jelavich

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 37
• This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republ... Lees meer

Berlin Psychoanalytic

Veronika Fuechtner

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 43
• One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to thi... Lees meer

A Concise History of the Third Reich

Wolfgang Benz

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 39
• This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the... Lees meer

Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings

Siegfried Kracauer

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 45
• Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-tw... Lees meer

Munich and Memory

Gavriel D Rosenfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 22
• Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collec... Lees meer

The Promise of Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 49
• Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of... Lees meer

Walter Benjamin's Other History

Beatrice Hanssen

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 15
• Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it des... Lees meer

Walter Benjamin

Richard Wolin

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 7
• Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard ... Lees meer

Prague Territories

Scott Spector

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 21
• Scott Spector's adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at t... Lees meer

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

Kay Schiller, Chris Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 42
• The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Ge... Lees meer

Metropolis Berlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 46
• Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemp... Lees meer

The Third Reich Sourcebook

Anson Rabinbach, Sander L Gilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 47
• No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminat... Lees meer

Berlin Electropolis

Andreas Killen

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 38
• Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a ca... Lees meer

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

Kay Schiller, Chris Young

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 42
• The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Ge... Lees meer

The Dark Mirror

Lutz Koepnick

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 32
• Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas-Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's-in this theoretically and politically incisive ... Lees meer

The Dialectical Imagination

Martin Jay

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 10
• Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal-the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, pol... Lees meer

Exiled in Paradise

Anthony Heilbut

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 16
• A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars--ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Th... Lees meer

Beyond the Conceivable

Dan Diner

• Hardcover | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 20
• The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the auth... Lees meer

The Red Count

Laird M Easton

• Paperback | Engels | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism | nr. 30
• The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on th... Lees meer