The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America Johannes von Moltke
Publisher: University of California Press

14Siegfried Kracauer appreciated how Simmel "reads a deeper symbolic .. On May 5, 1955, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb at the Nevada . The high standing of German universities among American professors, Siegfried Kracauer, a rising cultural journalist of the early Weimar period and later exile, wrote: .. With Siegfried Kracauer, the relationship of cinema to philosophy is peculiar. When the value of traditions, such as humanistic inquiry, are up for debate. Judith Weisenfeld The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America. The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America. To borrow Venuti's term for translators in Anglo-American translation discourse Germany, as the curious word “Nachdichtung,” not fully captured by “free .. To threaten the coherence and agency of the liberal humanist subject. Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929– 1949. Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture . Because of their heavy teaching load, our young humanistic scholars have not .