Human Spanner
Stuart Jeffries: Kant Come Alive, 17 June 2021
Correspondence 1923-66: Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer
edited by Wolfgang Schopf, translated by Susan Reynolds and Michael Winkler.
Polity, 537 pp., £35, November 2020,978 0 7456 4923 8 Show More
edited by Wolfgang Schopf, translated by Susan Reynolds and Michael Winkler.
Polity, 537 pp., £35, November 2020,
Kracauer: A Biography
by Jörg Später, translated by Daniel Steuer.
Polity, 584 pp., £35, September 2020,978 1 5095 3301 5 Show More
by Jörg Später, translated by Daniel Steuer.
Polity, 584 pp., £35, September 2020,
“... Please read when alone! … Nobody is to see this letter – be careful, Teddie. You are 19 – I am 34 – may it work out, after all?’ Dated 5 April 1923 and written on Frankfurter Zeitung notepaper, the letter was a declaration of love from Siegfried Kracauer, the Weimar Republic’s celebrated cultural critic, to Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, precocious teenager and future philosopher ... ”
