Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB: Wednesday 1 May 2019: 4.30-6.30pm

Celebrating the launch of Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network - Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal, edited by Philippe Despoix and Jillian Tomm, with the collaboration of Eric Méchoulan and Georges Leroux.

 

Free and open to all but with limited space. Please book in advance: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19752

 

The Warburg Institute, founded in the 1920s in Hamburg by art and cultural historian Aby Warburg, is a pioneering institution that has greatly shaped the fields of art, myth, religion, medicine, philosophy and intellectual history. When, in 1933, the institute was moved to London to escape the Nazis, its research and legacy were protected and further developed by a network of researchers dispersed throughout the UK, the US and Canada. 

 

The first interdisciplinary study of the Warburg network as an arena of intellectual transmission, transformation and exchange, this volume reveals the dynamics, agencies, and actors at play in the development of the Warburg Institute’s program and output, with a specific focus on the role of Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005) in the institute’s major ventures. Among these collective projects of the institute are the famous Saturn and Melancholy, which blends art history with philosophical and cultural history, and the Latin and Arabic Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi series, which contributed to research on the continuity of Platonic thought. Consulting published and unpublished sources including correspondences, memories, and diaries of affiliated scholars, the essays explore the history of the Warburg Library as a vital cultural institution and the personal and intellectual relationships of the researchers devoted to it.

 

From Hamburg to London to Montreal, Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network takes readers on a journey into more than forty years of intellectual life at one of the most prestigious cultural research institutes.

 

 

Jon Millington

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Jon Millington

Events and Research Projects Officer

OWRI Project Administrator (Translingual Strand)

 

School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 230 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU

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The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the UK's national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences.