Chapter 1 Introduction: On Kracauer’s Essays and the Contemporary Significance of Dialectics

Chapter 2 A Philosophy of Rootlesness: The Young Kracauer as a Critic of Georg Simmel

Chapter 3 The Novel of a Melancholy Outcast. On Ginster

Chapter 4 Allegories of Improvisation: Streets in Berlin and Elsewhere

Chapter 5 Fascism as a Farce of Farce: Totalitarian Propaganda

Chapter 7 “The Great Rift of the World”. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Discussions About the Character and Function of Critic-Intellectuals

Chapter 8 Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of the Fairy Tale

Chapter 9 Anatomies of Melancholy: Acedia and Alienation in Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer

Chapter 10 Decline and Fall of the Short Novel? Vicissitudes of a Genre in the Modern German Narrative

Chapter 11 The Historian in the Anteroom: Configurations of the Intellectual in the Late Discussions Between Siegfried Kracauer and Theodor W. Adorno