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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nesci, Catherine

Titel

La flânerie au feuilleton?: Quotidien et modernité critique chez Siegfried Kracauer

Ist Teil von

• French politics, culture and society, 2017-03, Vol.35 (1), p.19-33

Ort / Verlag

New York: Berghahn Journals

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay explores Siegfried Kracauer’s journalistic work and urban miniatures of the late 1920s and the early 1930s, using the conceptual frameworks developed by Géraldine Muhlmann in Du journalisme en démocratie (2004), Marie-Ève Thérenty in La Littérature au quotidien (2007), and Guillaume Pinson in L’Imaginaire médiatique (2012). It argues that, in his capacity as publicist, “feuilletoniste,” and sociologist, Kracauer embodies Kant’s critical ideal of the public sphere, which Muhlmann identifies with the “journaliste-flâneur.” Featuring the everyday in its various social and cultural facets, Kracauer’s feuilletons not only focus on the ephemeral and fragmented nature of the everyday, but also foster the awareness of a modernity in crisis through the de-familiarization of surfaces, spaces, and objects. Published in the bottom of the Frankfurter Zeitung, Kracauer’s urban miniatures and reportages deploy rich interventions on the crisis of Western phenomenological, cognitive, and sociopolitical space.