The Salaried Masses

Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

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Siegfried Kracauer

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First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment-or the "distraction industries," as Kracauer put it-but, only three years later, were to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste. Drawing on conversations, newspapers, adverts and personal correspondence, he charts the bland horror of the everyday. In the process he succeeds in writing not just a prescient account of the declining days of the Weimar Republic, but also a path-breaking exercise in the sociology of culture which has sharp relevance for today.

Author Biography:

Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) was one of Germany's leading cultural commentators and essayists. Quintin Hoare is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Release date NZ

September 17th, 1998

Author

Siegfried Kracauer

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Introduction by Inka Mulder-Bach
Translated by Quintin Hoare

Pages

128

Dimensions

137x216x13

ISBN-13

9781859841877

Product ID

5294296

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