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By Johannes von Moltke,Gerd Gemünden

Culture within the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the total diversity of Siegfried Kracauer's paintings as novelist, architect, journalist, sociologist, historian, exile critic, and theorist of visible tradition. This interdisciplinary anthology---including items from Miriam Bratu Hansen, Andreas Huyssen, Noah Isenberg, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Rentschler, and Heide Schlüpmann---brings jointly literary and movie students, historians and artwork historians, sociologists, and designers to handle the scope and present relevance of a physique of labor devoted to investigating all features of modernism and modernity. The individuals technique Kracauer's writings from various angles, a few by way of putting them in discussion along with his contemporaries in Weimar Germany and the recent York Intellectuals of the Nineteen Forties and '50s; others by means of exploring fairly unknown elements of Kracauer's oeuvre through contemplating his contributions to architectural background, the background of radio in addition to different new media, and museum and exhibition culture.

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