History-The Last Things Before the Last

"The late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main intellectual preoccupation during the last years of his life was the relation between past and present, and the relation between histories in different levels of generality. Philosophy is concerned with the last things while history seeks to explain 'the last things before the last.' One after another he examined various theories of history and exposed their strengths and weaknesses. Well written and cogently argued." --Library Journal This edition features a new introduction by editor Paul Oskar Kristeller of Columbia University.

• Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
• A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
• The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
• The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (Routledge Classics) (Volume 40)
• Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback))
• No Island Is an Island
• Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks)
• The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
• Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory)
• Theory of Film