Figural philology : Panofsky and the science of things / Adi Efal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Efal, Adi, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Summary:

"Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception. Insisting on the importance of iconology as a method for art history and the humanities in general, it shows how examining this promotes a cooperation between the history of art and the history of philosophy. It discusses whether Panofsky's method could be of use for general questions in the epistemology of the historical sciences that examine human works. Figural Philology also shows that Panofsky shares affinities with twentieth-century romance philology. A reading of Panofsky's work alongside the philological enterprise of Erich Auerbach and several other authors demonstrates that a proper appropriation of the philological impulse can provide a way out of the methodological antimony still hanging between hyper-formalist and hyper-theoretical approaches to the history of art."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Philological rationality and the constitution of the history of art

Chapter 2. Archimedean points: Monuments as duration reservoirs

Chapter 3. Forms and figures: Two fundamental modes of pictorial production

Chapter 4. Pictorial validities in art and history

Chapter 5. Sub figuralitate historiæ

Chapter 6. Iconological space: Panofsky with Warburg

Chapter 7. The figural synthesis of historical reality in the iconology table

Chapter 8. Philology's recollective habitus: Panofsky with Spitzer, Auerbach and Curtius

Chapter 9. Figural content and the past as a res extensa

Conclusion: Towards a figural philology

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474254045

1474254047

9781474254069

1474254063

9781474254021

1474254020

OCLC:

959617380