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The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

by Siegfried Kracauer (Author), Quintin Hoare (Translator)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 130
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 17 Sep 1998
ISBN 10: 1859841872
ISBN 13: 9781859841877

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Well before the current vogue of cultural studies, Siegfried Kracauer pioneered a method of ethnographic critique that allowed hin to reveal his society's deepest secrets by decoding its surface manifestations. Perhaps its most stunning fruit was his classic study of the spiritual and material crisis of Weimar Republic's salaried employees, now happily available in English for the first time. It was this work that earned Kracauer the celebrated sobriquet a ragpicker at daybreak from his friend Walter Benjamin, who may have been wrong about the revolutionary day he thought was dawning, but who correctly saw the value in sifting through the remains of the long night that came before and was, alas, to darken still further in the years to come. - Martin Jay
Author Bio
Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1996) was one of Germany's leading cultural commentators and essayists.