Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Time Line of Kracauer’s Life ix
5. CHAPTER 1. The Early Days: A Biographical Sketch 1
6. CHAPTER 2. The Early Phenomenology of Modernity and Mass Culture: Of Hotel Lobbies and Detective Novels 11
7. CHAPTER 3. Surface and Self-Representation: “The Mass Ornament” and Die Angestellten 26
8. CHAPTER 4. Autobiography and Social Biography: Ginster, Georg, and Offenbach 48
9. CHAPTER 5. Continuity and Mentality: “From Caligari to Hitler” 75
10. CHAPTER 6. Space, Time, and Apparatus: The Optical Medium “Theory of Film” 95
11. CHAPTER 7. At the End: A Philosophy of History and Historiography 114
12. Notes 121
13. Bibliography 131
14. Index 133