Anti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theory
This thesis re-examines the life's work of German-American critical theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, to recover abstraction from tacit historical associations with modern fascism. Evoked in critical theory more generally, the abstraction-to-fascism-teleology imagines 20th century fascism as the di...
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Scholar Commons
2019
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7933 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9130&context=etd |