Not for sale in Estonia! Best remembered today for his brilliant study of early German cinema, "From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological Study of the German Film", and for his involvement with the Frankfurt School (he mentored Theodor Adorno), Sieg...

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the...