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Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801464065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of ImagesDDC classification:
  • 709.2
LOC classification:
  • N7483.W36
Online resources:
Contents:
Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Atlas Gazed : Mnemosyne-Its Origins, Motives, and Scope -- 2. Ad oculos: Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Collecting -- 3. Metaphor Lost and Found in Mnemosyne -- 4. Translating the Symbol: Warburg and Cassirer -- 5. Metaphorologies: Nietzsche, Blumenberg, and Hegel -- 6. Exemplary Figures and Diagrammatic Thought -- 7. Synderesis: The "Bruno-Reise" -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels of Aby Warburg's encyclopedic Mnemosyne (Atlas of Images), begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929.
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Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Atlas Gazed : Mnemosyne-Its Origins, Motives, and Scope -- 2. Ad oculos: Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Collecting -- 3. Metaphor Lost and Found in Mnemosyne -- 4. Translating the Symbol: Warburg and Cassirer -- 5. Metaphorologies: Nietzsche, Blumenberg, and Hegel -- 6. Exemplary Figures and Diagrammatic Thought -- 7. Synderesis: The "Bruno-Reise" -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels of Aby Warburg's encyclopedic Mnemosyne (Atlas of Images), begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929.

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