Reluctant Skeptic Coen J. Ritsema

Reluctant Skeptic Coen J. RitsemaThe journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T.

Erik Sjöberg instead recounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions

but also perversion and obsessional and hysterical neurosis

Presents 105 seals and seal impressions from northwestern Iran

the volume also delves into pre-Hispanic mosaics

visions that left lasting legacies

“I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare (as D’Artagnan)

anthropological

the authors make visible the dialectical relationship between religion and the pursuit of political power-on the one hand

positionality

comprehensive review questions and sample syllabi

his father

as in the life of Hong Kong itself