Reluctant Skeptic
豆瓣
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Harry T. Craver
简介
“Reluctant Skeptic opens a window into a moment and a place in time through in-depth analysis of Kracauer’s polyphonic engagement with pressing contemporary questions and the role of the critic in assessing them. It makes no claim that Kracauer’s 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 Kracauer’s 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
“Unpretentiously written and based on a judicious interpretation of a wide range of materials, Reluctant Skeptic contributes to our understanding not only of Siegfried Kracauer’s intellectual development but also of Weimar culture as a whole.” • Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
contents
Preface
Introduction: Kracauer on and in Weimar Modernity
Chapter 1. “Location Suggests Content”: Kracauer on the Fringe of Religious Revival
Chapter 2. Reading the War, Writing Crisis
Chapter 3. From Copenhagen to Baker Street: Kracauer, Kierkegaard and the Detective Novel
Chapter 4. Religion on the Street: Kracauer and Religious Flânerie
Conclusion: Criticism in the Negative Church
Afterword: From Don Quixote to Sancho Panza
Bibliography
Index