El concepto de crítica en los escritos tempranos de Siegfried Kracauer

Abstract

The article examines, on the first place, the context of emergence of the modern concept of Criticism – in the European Restoration – and then proposes some comparisons between that context and the German Essay of the Weimar Republic. After that, it analyzes some of the most important Essays of Siegfried Kracauer written on the second half of the decade of 1920 and on the first years of the decade of 1930 with the purpose of identifying the concepts of Criticism there present.