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...Peter J. Schwartz Abstract The final, unfinished project of the Hamburg art historian and Kulturwissenschaftler Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929)—the so-called Mnemosyne image atlas ( Bilderatlas )—has recently drawn increased attention not only from scholars but also from artists and museum curators...

... Auerbach’s theory of the figure in relation to the historiographical innovations of Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, the revival of seriality in modernist aesthetics, and the narrative forms of twentieth-century literature, it argues that Auerbach’s work was shaped more significantly by modernist aesthetics...

... writers have suggested the work of Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, whose sig- nature modernist archival projects sought to transform linear development— the history of nineteenth-century capitalism in Benjamin’s Passagenwerk and the migration of significant gestures and bodily expressions across...

... question, though, given his few references to the work of Aby Warburg, the terms of these art-historical investigations could not have been completely unknown to the philosopher. From Blumenberg’s reticence when it came to the history of art, one can point to at least one further point of reference (other...

... of torture. The most recent scholar to remind us of this is Stephen Eisenman, who, referring to the work of the German scholar Aby Warburg, argues for the existence of a pathos formula fundamental to the classical tradition in Western art, that is, “the motif of tortured people and tormented...

...) Adorno and Benjamin;50 Rudolf Arnheim, André Bazin, and Christian Metz;51 Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky;52 or, as I argue in The Curious Realist, the key figures on the New York scene in the 1940s and 1950s—from the mem- bers of the Institute for Social Research uptown to Arendt, to the New York...

.... Goldberg was the center of one of what Scholem called the “three sects” of German Judaism in the Weimar period: the Aby Warburg circle in Hamburg, the School for Social Research circle in Frankfurt, and the Goldberg circle in Berlin. 7 Among the members of his circle, Goldberg’s closest philosophical...