Siegfried kracauer the salaried masses pdf

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Nov 01, Whtvrs rated it liked it. Apr 21, Dhandayutha rated it it was amazing Shelves: , sociology , philosophy , challenge. This book deconstruct the reality unreality? The brilliance of Kracauer is the way he uses the superficiality of masses or surfaces of the masses to study their depths. He deconstruct the reality of the common places such as a hotel room,movie theater,to study the masses.

What he analyses is not their work rather their distraction to study their work atmosphere. As per kracauer the problem with capitalism is not that it rationali This book deconstruct the reality unreality?

As per kracauer the problem with capitalism is not that it rationalize too much but rather it rationalize too little. He deconstructs the rational irrational? Great read. May 03, lisa rated it it was amazing. View 1 comment. Apr 19, Weihui rated it it was amazing Shelves: ethnography , academia.

Jul 12, Joseph Hirsch rated it it was ok. A dialectical incursion into the false Consciousness of the precariously non-Marxist revanchist capitalistic fascist paternalist This short blast of Feuilleton pieces from Siegfried Kracauer made for excruciating reading. Part of this is due to how palpable the author's resentments are not a good mind-state to be in when doing this kind of social research. Confirmation bias is too kind a word for the set of assumptions, baggage and ideology Kracauer brings to the task.

This was first noted by t A dialectical incursion into the false Consciousness of the precariously non-Marxist revanchist capitalistic fascist paternalist This short blast of Feuilleton pieces from Siegfried Kracauer made for excruciating reading. This was first noted by the scholar Eric D.

Weitz, who seemed puzzled by how I usually don't invoke the voguish bugbears of the left, but the tone is scornful especially when dealing with younger women, so much so that it noticeably mars those rare occasions when a genuine insight emerges from the nearly-impenetrable wall of obscurantist jargon in which Kracauer hides the few insights he actually provides.

About that jargon: Kracauer was not a full member of the Frankfurt School, though for obvious reasons he shares some traits with cohorts Benjamin, Adorno, et. Sometimes concepts are so complex that they require dense language, and sometimes dense language is invoked in order to shield the wielder of words from being found out as a charlatan. Kracauer was mostly a charlatan, but due to the political machinations of academia and the proliferation of "studies" degrees, especially the interdisciplinary racket, "The Salaried Masses" and several other Kracauer works are likely to remain in print for awhile longer.

If you would like to get a feel for the Weimar milieu as chronicled by a feuilletonist who doesn't treat people like Jane Goodall encountering apes, I recommend some Joseph Roth as a starting place, and if you like slumming with a man who is brilliant but knows the gutter , you could do a lot worse than Alfred Doblin.

You couldn't do much worse than Kracauer, unless you're grading grad students. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.

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This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. Skip to content PDF ipi. Search for:. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Masaes Options Sign in. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany.

My library Help Advanced Book Search. Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste.

Drawing on conversations, newspapers, adverts and personal correspondence, he charts the bland horror of the everyday. In the process, Kracauer succeeds in writing not just a prescient account of the decline days of the Weimar Republic, but also a path-breaking exercise in the sociology of culture which has sharp relevance for today.

Selected pages Title Page. Contents Introduction by Inka MulderBach 1.