Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The Last Things before the Last, an unfinished book by Siegfried Kracauer that was published after his death, first appeared in paperback in 1995.At the time, Paul Oskar Kristeller, who had contributed a foreword to the first edition in 1969, prepared a new preface.The twenty-six years that elapsed between the two Kristeller texts were marked by a veritable Kracauer renaissance, attested to by a number of new editions and translations, as well as critical essays in several languages that addressed this body of work.But in 1995, Kristeller pointed out, this belated recognition was marred by a tendency to eliminate from the presentation of Kracauer anything that could not be traced directly back to the Frankfurt school.As examples of this distorting approach, Kristeller cited the articles on History by Gertrud Koch and Inka Mu ¨lder-Bach that had appeared in the issue of New German Critique devoted to Kracauer in 1991.Kristeller wrote:
Source: Critical Inquiry
DOI: 10.1086/526091
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Institutions: Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Bologna
Language: Italian
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2063998629