ISBN:
022627246X
,
9780226272467
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 444 pages
,
Illustrations
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2015
DDC:
709.43515
Keywords:
Warburg, Aby
;
Cassirer, Ernst
;
Panofsky, Erwin
;
Art
;
Art
;
Philosophy
;
Warburg, Aby 1866-1929
;
Cassirer, Ernst 1874-1945
;
Panofsky, Erwin 1892-1968
;
Hamburg
;
Ästhetik
;
Hamburg
;
Geisteswissenschaften
;
Geschichte 1919-1933
Abstract:
Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at a new university in an unintellectual banking city at the end of World War I, that a trio of innovative thinkers emerged. Together, Aby Warburg, Ernest Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky, developed new avenues of thought in cultural theory, art history, and philosophy, changing the course of cultural and intellectual history not just in Weimar Germany, but throughout the world
Abstract:
Introduction. Dreamland of humanists -- Culture, commerce, and the city -- Warburg's Renaissance and the things in between -- University as "gateway to the world" -- Warburg, Cassirer, and the conditions of reason -- Socrates in Hamburg? : Panofsky and the economics of scholarship -- Iconology and the Hamburg school -- Private Jews, public Germans -- Cassirer's cosmopolitan nationalism -- The enlightened rector and the politics of enlightenment -- The Hamburg America line : exiles as exports -- Epilogue. Nachleben of an idea
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-417) and index
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