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Failure to Yield is a collection of creative nonfiction that explores themes of presence and emotional connection and expression. The seven essays, which include three flash essays, explore the themes by reflecting on such topics as marriage, parent-child relationships and addiction. The collection is woven together by the author's relationships with her parents and children and by her experiences growing up in a small town in Iowa.

Esta tese objetiva analisar a obra do intelectual judeu-alemão Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) produzida até o ano de 1933. Especialmente em sua atividade como publicista, Kracauer desenvolveu procedimentos de observação social que tinham como objetivo a análise de fenômenos de superfície, expressos por objetos relativamente marginais, pontuais e de extração cotidiana (por exemplo, o best-seller, a dança, o cinema, a moda etc.). Kracauer acompanhou elementos da vida social alemã durante a República de Weimar sob uma perspectiva epistemológica peculiar, que visava entender o conteúdo múltiplo de uma época a partir da interpretação minuciosa de suas manifestações mais ínfimas. Acompanho a trajetória de seu pensamento e procuro oferecer um modo de ler seus textos sobre as mais variadas e inusitadas temáticas. Nessa leitura, emergem as perspectivas de que esses trabalhos oferecem, por um lado, um diagnóstico de época; por outro, viabilizam uma forma específica de análise social, pautada na observação de fenômenos relativamente marginais. Durante o processo de interpretação dos ensaios kracauerianos, procuro expor o diálogo que ele manteve com o pensamento social contemporâneo e a constelação teórica que possibilitou tal junção entre sociologia e superfícies para o oferecimento de uma crítica do presente; além disso, aponto para o teor iluminista da sua reflexão, em contraposição a movimentos nostálgicos e regressivos que marcaram o período / The aim of this thesis is to analyze the works of the Jewish-German intellectual Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) in the period up to 1933. Especially during his career as a publicist, Kracauer developed methods for social observation in order to analyze surface phenomena, represented by relatively marginal, particular and everyday life objects (the best seller, dance, movies and fashion, for example). During the Weimar Republic, Kracauer monitored elements of German social life, making use of a singular epistemological perspective that sought to understand the multiple contents of an epoch through the in-depth interpretation of its minutest manifestations. I set out to track the development of his thought and present a reading of his texts centering on varied and unusual themes. Such a reading offers two perspectives: a diagnosis of the times (Zeitdiagnose) on the one hand, and a specific form of social analysis based on relatively marginal phenomena on the other. During the process of interpreting Kracauers essays, I present his dialogue with social thought from the time as well as the theoretical constellation that allowed for such a connection between sociology and surface phenomena in creating a critique of the present. Additionally, I highlight the enlightened content of his reflections, in opposition to the nostalgic and regressive movements that marked the period

Esta tese objetiva analisar a obra do intelectual judeu-alemão Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) produzida até o ano de 1933. Especialmente em sua atividade como publicista, Kracauer desenvolveu procedimentos de observação social que tinham como objetivo a análise de fenômenos de superfície, expressos por objetos relativamente marginais, pontuais e de extração cotidiana (por exemplo, o best-seller, a dança, o cinema, a moda etc.). Kracauer acompanhou elementos da vida social alemã durante a República de Weimar sob uma perspectiva epistemológica peculiar, que visava entender o conteúdo múltiplo de uma época a partir da interpretação minuciosa de suas manifestações mais ínfimas. Acompanho a trajetória de seu pensamento e procuro oferecer um modo de ler seus textos sobre as mais variadas e inusitadas temáticas. Nessa leitura, emergem as perspectivas de que esses trabalhos oferecem, por um lado, um diagnóstico de época; por outro, viabilizam uma forma específica de análise social, pautada na observação de fenômenos relativamente marginais. Durante o processo de interpretação dos ensaios kracauerianos, procuro expor o diálogo que ele manteve com o pensamento social contemporâneo e a constelação teórica que possibilitou tal junção entre sociologia e superfícies para o oferecimento de uma crítica do presente; além disso, aponto para o teor iluminista da sua reflexão, em contraposição a movimentos nostálgicos e regressivos que marcaram o período / The aim of this thesis is to analyze the works of the Jewish-German intellectual Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) in the period up to 1933. Especially during his career as a publicist, Kracauer developed methods for social observation in order to analyze surface phenomena, represented by relatively marginal, particular and everyday life objects (the best seller, dance, movies and fashion, for example). During the Weimar Republic, Kracauer monitored elements of German social life, making use of a singular epistemological perspective that sought to understand the multiple contents of an epoch through the in-depth interpretation of its minutest manifestations. I set out to track the development of his thought and present a reading of his texts centering on varied and unusual themes. Such a reading offers two perspectives: a diagnosis of the times (Zeitdiagnose) on the one hand, and a specific form of social analysis based on relatively marginal phenomena on the other. During the process of interpreting Kracauers essays, I present his dialogue with social thought from the time as well as the theoretical constellation that allowed for such a connection between sociology and surface phenomena in creating a critique of the present. Additionally, I highlight the enlightened content of his reflections, in opposition to the nostalgic and regressive movements that marked the period

Nachlassverzeichnis Siegfried Geißler (1929-2014), Zusammengestellt von Miriam Roner, Mai 2020

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Siegfried Kracauer is mostly known for the work on film theory he wrote during his post-war exile to North America. This thesis proposes to examine a lesser known and far more complex portion of his oeuvre, namely the vast body of essays and monographs he produced throughout the 20s and 30s as editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung, which offer not only a cultural diary of the Weimar republic but also a critique of modernity and the many upheavals it engendered. Using both a detailed analysis of his own work as well as an examination of the various critical responses it elicited, this study aims at exposing the paradoxical complexity of Kracauer's stance towards modernity and its various mass cultural manifestations, a complexity which has unfortunately often been misjudged and reduced to a mere middling position. Indeed, because of his refusal to opt for a definite position, to either fully embrace or reject modernity, Kracauer has often been miscast as a mere seeker of compromise, a thinker who tried to make edges rounder and ease tensions. This thesis is an attempt to prove that far from trying to annihilate the tensions of the modern era, Kracauer in fact sought to cultivate them. He may have refused to opt for a definite stance---be it a "yes" or a "no"---towards modernity, yet his position is not to be reduced to a tepid "maybe", but ought to be seen, rather, as a truly Janusian simultaneous "yes" and "no" towards it. In our age of extreme relativism, where tension is to be avoided at all costs, there is some valuable insight to be gained from Kracauer's obstinate fight against comfortable compromises of any kind.

Zugl.: Wuppertal, Univ., Diss., 2005