From Caligari to Hitler - From Caligari to Hitler

Japanese: 《カリガリからヒットラーまで》 - かりがりからひっとらーまで
From Caligari to Hitler - From Caligari to Hitler

…He was a German Jew, journalist and sociologist who pioneered the criticism of civilization in Germany in the 1920s. As a journalist for the arts column of the Frankfurter Zeitung, he had close ties with Adorno and Benjamin, and played a pioneering role in analyzing the new historical phenomenon of the collapse of modern Western European civil culture and the establishment of modern mass culture society. He presented theoretical analysis of the phenomenon in Sociology as a Science (1922), focused on the actual conditions of white-collar workers in big cities in his newspaper report The Salaryman (1930), and depicted the psychology of young people at the time in his novel Ginster (1928), paving the way for criticism of civilization through the method of social biography. …

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Japanese:

…1920年代ドイツにおいて文明批評を開拓したユダヤ系ドイツ人で,ジャーナリスト,社会学者。《フランクフルト新聞》の学芸欄記者として,アドルノ,ベンヤミンらと近い関係にあり,近代西欧市民文化崩壊と現代大衆文化社会の成立という新しい歴史的現象の分析に先駆的役割を果たした。《学問としての社会学》(1922)においてはその理論的考察を行い,新聞ルポ《サラリーマン》(1930)では大都市のホワイトカラーの実態に焦点を当て,小説《ギンスター》(1928)で当時の青年心理を描くなど,社会の伝記という手法による文明批評の道を開いた。…

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