{"product_id":"siegfried-kracauer-hardback-9780745629612","title":"Siegfried Kracauer (Hardback) 9780745629612","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSiegfried Kracauer\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGraeme Gilloch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745629612, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.558 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Our Companion in Misfortune\u003c\/i\u003e is an evocative and engaging portrait with much fresh insight into Kracauer’s wide-ranging and imaginative work as theorist and critic of media and metropolitan experience. Gilloch successfully captures Kracauer’s distinctive voice in its mix of melancholy and sharp wit. Much more than an introduction, this book gives its due to Kracauer as a major figure in the orbit of Frankfurt School Critical Theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndreas Huyssen, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Kracauer may “rest a while in peace”, but only for a while. Gilloch’s magisterial study, forces a return to Kracauer. Music, film, the city and his own literary attempts tie Kracauer to the modern. The book reveals a thinker who, in responding to the demands of his own time, writes and thinks in a way that addresses the contemporary. There is an acuity of thought that allows Kracauer to engage our modernity. Gilloch’s own power as a writer and a thinker is to stage that engagement. This is an invaluable book whose presence should be both welcomed and celebrated.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrew Benjamin, Monash University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It is part of a timely revival and reappraisal of his unique contribution to our critical understanding of modernity, the interrogation of mass culture, and the recognition of both the dynamism and diminution of human experience in the hustle and bustle of the contemporary metropolis. In stressing the extraordinary variety of Kracauer’s writings (from scholarly philosophical treatises to journalistic fragments, from comic novels to classified reports) and the dazzling diversity of his themes (from science and urban architectural visions to slapstick and dancing girls), this insightful book reveals his fundamental and formative influence upon Critical Theory and argues for his vital relevance for cultural analysis today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKracauer’s work is distinguished by an acute sensitivity to the ‘surface manifestations’ of popular culture and a witty, eminently readable literary style. In exploring and making accessible the work of this remarkable thinker, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students working in many disciplines and interdisciplinary fields: sociology and social theory; film, media and cultural studies; urban studies, cultural geography and architectural theory; philosophy and Critical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOur Companion Introduced: An Intellectual Schwejk\u003cbr\u003e Part I From Inner Life: Sociological Expressionism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Small Mercies: The Spirit of our Times\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Portraits of the Age\u003cbr\u003e Part II From Our Weimar Correspondent: The “Newest Germany” and Elsewhere\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 On the Surface: The Dialectics of Ornament\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Berlin Impromptus\u003cbr\u003e Part III From the Boulevards: Paris of the Second Empire in Kracauer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Offenbach in Paris\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Orpheus in Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e Part IV From the New World: Monstrous States, Mental Images\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 The Caligari Complex\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 Re-Surfacing Work\u003cbr\u003e Part V From the Screen: Redeeming Images, Remembered Things\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 Film, Improvisation and “The Flow of Life”\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10 Film, Phantasmagoria and the Street\u003cbr\u003e Inconclusive: Penultimate Things\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406588506392,"sku":"9780745629612","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745629612.jpg?v=1784140469","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/siegfried-kracauer-hardback-9780745629612","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}