Dreamland of Humanists : Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School / Emily J. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Emily J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.

Cassirer, Ernst.

Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968.

Panofsky, Erwin.

Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929.

Warburg, Aby.

Art--Germany--Hamburg.

Art.

Philosophy--Germany--Hamburg.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged. Working side by side, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky developed new avenues in art history, cultural history, and philosophy, changing the course of cultural and intellectual history in Weimar Germany and throughout the world. In Dreamland of Humanists, Emily J. Levine considers not just these men, but the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form. Shedding light on the origins of their work on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Levine clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world. By examining the role that context plays in our analysis of ideas, Levine confirms that great ideas-like great intellectuals-must come from somewhere.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. Dreamland of Humanists

1. Culture, Commerce, and the City

2. Warburg's Renaissance and the Things in Between

3. University as "Gateway to the World"

4. Warburg, Cassirer, and the Conditions of Reason

5. Socrates in Hamburg? Panofsky and the Economics of Scholarship

6. Iconology and the Hamburg School

7. Private Jews, Public Germans

8. Cassirer's Cosmopolitan Nationalism

9. The Enlightened Rector and the Politics of Enlightenment

10. The Hamburg-America Line: Exiles as Exports

EPILOGUE. Nachleben of an Idea

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226272467

022627246X

9780226061719

022606171X

OCLC:

862613059