About this title: First published in 1930, this work has as its subject of inquiry the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment - or the "distraction industries", as Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) put it - but, only three years later, they were to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste. ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859848814ISBN:1859848818
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VERSO
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781859841877ISBN:1859841872
Description: Germany's Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) provided a fascinating study--first published in 1930--of German society on the eve of Nazism. The focus of Kracauer's inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. read more
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