Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

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299 Index abstraction, 3–5, 15, 48, 50–54, 80, 82, 87–88, 95, 118–19, 124, 132, 142, 153, 185, 223, 259, 270 abstractness, 50, 52, 80, 82, 263 Achternbusch, Herbert, 11, 68, 75n41 acting, 86–88, 140, 153, 252, 260 Adorno, Theodor W., 6–7, 16, 18–19, 21–23, 25, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42, 45, 46, 49, 51–52, 55–57, 59, 60, 65, 74–75, 78, 102, 116, 126, 144, 167, 178–79, 182, 206, 212–13, 215, 218, 229–36, 238–44, 256, 258, 267–71 “The Curious Realist,” 19, 229 Dialectic of Enlightenment, 65 “The Essay as Form,” 51 natural history, 19, 119, 229–31, 233–43 Negative Dialectics (1966), 19, 229–33, 235–36, 238–39, 242n32 “On the Idea of Natural History,” 239 aesthetics, 9, 11, 17, 20, 48–49, 54, 56n2, 62–64, 70, 74n36, 81, 83, 94, 105–6, 114–16, 118–19, 125, 133, 136, 143, 164n24, 168–72, 173, 178, 186, 187, 248, 262–67, 269, 273n47 aisthesis materialis, 187, 193–94, 195n9 Afgrunden (1910), 88 Agamben, Giorgio, 19, 265, 270 The Coming Community (1990), 270 agency, 104, 166 Alciati, Andrea, 219 alienation, 10, 14, 46, 48–50, 52, 93, 101, 103–4, 112, 117–18, 120, 122, 126, 132, 173, 191, 199, 245–46, 249–50, 255, 266–67, 169, 281 Allen, Woody, 32, 35 Annie Hall (1977), 35 The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), 32 Altenberg, Peter, 215 America, 2, 5–6, 8, 10–12, 29–33, 37–38, 39n9, 43–44, 48, 57n15, 61–62, 68, 79, 83, 112, 160, 258, 263, 265, 276–79 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 35–36 Am Rande der Sahara (1930), 287 Andrew, Dudley, 23n23, 24n31, 63, 73n12 anteroom, 5, 18, 20, 268–69 anthropology, 3, 15, 18–19, 227, 237, 246, 281 anti-Semitism, 37, 204–6, 208–9, 288–89 archaeology, 152–53, 156, 160, 163n12, 246, 163, 268 architecture, 3, 12, 14–17, 25n36, 108n15, 123, 128, 129, 139, 142, 143, 145n20, 149–53, 155–58, 160–62, 163n3, 163n12, 163n13, 164n20, 164n22, 165n25, 167, 173–77, 181n33, 181n36, 200, 203, 211n3, 214, 216, 218–20, 223, 230, 248–51 archive, 58n20, 80–81, 93–95, 99, 102–4, 109n27, 113, 135, 183, 193–94, 244, 256 Arendt, Hannah, 46 Arnheim, Rudolf, 12–13, 16, 25n31, 42, 46, 56n2, 71, 115, 265–66 Asphalt (1929), 85 Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 155 Asquith, Anthony, 191 Pygmalion (1938) (see Howard, Leslie) art, 3, 7, 14, 16, 17, 25, 31, 35, 38, 48, 50, 55, 70, 71n2, 81, 115, 119, 127n15, 128–30, 132–34, 136–37, 142–44, 145n15, 149–50, 156–58, 161, 165n25, 167, 169, 173, 218, 239, 258, 265–66, 281 art as a cultural category, 55 art criticism, 16, 35, 48, 81 decorative art, 128, 150, 152, 158, 160 history of art, 3, 14, 25n36, 38, 128–30, 136–37, 144, 145n15, 149–50, 156–57, 161, 218 in relationship to everyday life, 149 transitional art, 173 assimilation, 23n23, 32, 36, 77, 93, 282 Atget, Eugène, 233 audience, 7, 8, 33, 48, 64, 77–78, 80, 84–86, 88, 133, 136, 157, 161–62, 166, 174, 177, 192, 259, 263, 276, 287 female, 78, 84–86 authenticity, 70, 94, 123, 265 author, 17–18, 61, 62, 74n27, 166 author-cinema, 82–83 authority, 6, 29, 37, 83, 95, 100, 117–18, 249 avant-garde, 16–17, 20, 46, 54, 61, 97, 106, 111, 133–34, 139, 143, 169, 173, 282, 287, 289 Bädekerl, Klaus, 64 Balázs, Bela, 13, 25n31, 58n19 Ballin, Albert, 204 Barry, Iris, 8 Barthes, Roland, 97, 216–17, 224 “Rhetoric of the Image,” 162 Baudelaire, Charles, 93, 98, 108, 186, 195, 214 Baudrillard, Jean, 93 Bauforschung, 152 Basler National-Zeitung, 3 Bazin, André, 5, 8, 13, 23n24, 25n31, 50, 59n38, 61, 97, 107n8, 109n28, 265 BDA (see Bund Deutscher Architekten) Belke, Ingrid, 12, 25, 39, 108, 163–65, 182, 195, 211–12, 291, 295 Benjamin, Walter, 6–7, 16, 19, 22n15, 22n17, 23n18, 45, 49, 51, 53, 78, 97–102, 108n18, 116, 133–34, 168–69, 177, 181n33, 186, 213–15, 218–23, 224n6, 234, 281–82 Arcades Project, 109n20, 169 “Attested Auditor of Books,” 221–22 Einbahnstraße (One Way Street), 18, 213–14, 218–20, 222–23 “Little History of Photography,” 101 “Second Letter from Paris,” 222 Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (Origin of German Tragic Drama), 99, 133, 218, 239 Benn, Gottfried, 215 Berghahn, Wilfried, 11 “Gibt...