Siegfried Kracauer

Japanese: クラカウアー - くらかうあー(英語表記)Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer

German-born thinker and critic of civilization. After studying philosophy, sociology, and architecture, he became a journalist for the arts column of the newspaper Frankfurt, where he developed innovative critiques of civilization on issues of the middle class and popular culture phenomena such as film. His most famous work is Salaryman (1929). He fled the Nazi regime and went into exile in the United States via Paris, and in works such as Offenbach (1937) and From Caligari to Hitler (1949), he developed social thought theories using operetta and film as motifs.

[Tasashi Hirai February 17, 2015]

Hirai Tadashi's translation of From Caligari to Hitler (1971, Serika Shobo)Kanzaki Iwao's translation of Salaryman: The Twilight of the Weimar Republic (1979, Hosei University Press)

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Japanese:

ドイツ生まれの思想家、文明批評家。哲学、社会学、建築を学んだのち、『フランクフルト』紙学芸欄記者となり、中間層問題、映画など大衆文化現象について、斬新(ざんしん)な文明批評を展開。『サラリーマン』(1929)はその代表作。ナチス政権を逃れ、パリ経由でアメリカに亡命、『オッフェンバック』(1937)、『カリガリからヒトラーまで』(1949)などで、オペレッタ、映画をモチーフに社会思想論をも展開した。

[平井 正 2015年2月17日]

『平井正訳『カリガリからヒットラーまで』(1971・せりか書房)』『神崎巌訳『サラリーマン――ワイマル共和国の黄昏』(1979・法政大学出版局)』

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