Critical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer - Couverture souple

Barnouw, Dagmar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801847540 ISBN 13 : 9780801847547

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

A respected journalist and film critic for "Frankfurt Zeitung" during the Weimar period, Siegfried Kracauer worked with a more comprehensive concept of cultural modernity than did his friends Bloch, Adorno and Benjamin. Sensitive to the postwar experience of rapid technological advances and profound cultural transformation, he emphasized the contemporary significance of the documentary imagimation. Though he acknowledged that reality is a construction, its modern pluralism suggested to him modalities of objectivity rather than despair of it. In "Critical Realism" Dagmar Barnouw explores the connections that Kracauer stated in his last book, "History", between the representational modes of photography and historiography, both of them characteristically composite and unstable. Drawing on recent developments in the history and theory of photography and historiography, she argues the contemporaneity of Kracauer's thought to late 20th century cultural modernity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dagmar Barnouw is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her books include 'Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity' and 'Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience', the latter available from Johns Hopkins. 'Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society.' Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801847540
• ISBN 13: 9780801847547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible