Miriam Hansen, America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on Cinema and Modernity
in: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, p.362 ff.
(...) For Kracauer the fascination with the surface phenomena of modern life was simultaneaously a rejection of the discipline of philosophy, in particular the tradition of German idealist philosophy. Theoretical thinking schooled in that tradition, Kracauer felt, was increasingly incapable of grasping a changed and changing reality, a "reality filled with corporeal things and people." Accordingly, Kracauer's despair over the direction of the historical process turns into a despair over the lack of a heuristic discourse (...).
Definition of heuristic in the German Wikipedia:
in: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, p.362 ff.
(...) For Kracauer the fascination with the surface phenomena of modern life was simultaneaously a rejection of the discipline of philosophy, in particular the tradition of German idealist philosophy. Theoretical thinking schooled in that tradition, Kracauer felt, was increasingly incapable of grasping a changed and changing reality, a "reality filled with corporeal things and people." Accordingly, Kracauer's despair over the direction of the historical process turns into a despair over the lack of a heuristic discourse (...).
Definition of heuristic in the German Wikipedia:
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