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"Reading his reviews for the 'Frankfurter Zeitung' of some 70 years ago, one would expect Siegfried Kracauer to seem more of his time than he sometimes does. That's the first salutary shock in 'The Mass Ornament'...Here's a German Marxist writing about Franz Kafka and Max Weber and Martin Buber hot off the press; or giving an on-set report to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. And yet, when he writes about the fashion for biography, or the crisis of the novel, or of science, he seems to be elaborating arguments that mean more today than ever before."Kracauer, Siegfried is the author of 'Mass Ornament Weimer Essays', published 2005 under ISBN 9780674551633 and ISBN 067455163X.
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