NON SOLO CINEMA: KRACAUER INTERPRETE DI TROELTSCH E DI WEBER AI TEMPI DELLA WISSENSCHAFTSKRISIS. NOTA PRELIMINARE A UN CASO DI STUDIO

Domenico Spinosa, Not only Movie: Kracauer’s Reading of Troeltsch and Weber at the Time of the Wissenschaftskrisis. Preliminary Note on a Case Study. This paper aims to present the main aspects of Kracauer’s critical perspectives as reader of Troeltsch and Weber during the bitter years of the controversy around the Wissenschaftskrisis. Taking as a starting point his early short writings on cinema and some pregnant themes from his "Soziologie als Wissenschaft" (1922), attention is then turned to the 1923 article in which Kracauer reviews both Troeltsch’s first volume, "Der Historismus und seine Probleme" (1922), and Weber’s "Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre". (1922). It is occasion for Kracauer to discuss in particular the role of historical science and sociology, understood as empirical sciences, in the face of the dilemma, in his view insurmountable, of their universal validity and the inevitable risk of being ascribed to relativism.