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The Salaried Masses - Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany (Paperback)
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The Salaried Masses - Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany (Paperback)
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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.
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