Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network : Intellectual Peregrinations From Hamburg to London and Montreal

A new approach to the legacy of the Warburg Library and a companion to the pioneering work Saturn and Melancholy. A new approach to the legacy of the Warburg Library and a companion to the pioneering work Saturn and Melancholy. 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 Consulting published and unpublished sources including correspondences, memories, and diaries of affiliated scholars, the essays explore the history of the Warburg Library as a vital cultural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. Contributors include Philippe Despoix (Université de Montréal), Georges Leroux (UQAM), Eric Méchoulan (Université de Montréal), Elisabeth Otto (Université de Montréal), Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan), Davide Stimilli (University of Colorado at Boulder), Jillian Tomm (Université de Montréal), Martin Treml (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin), Jean-Philippe Uzel (UQAM), Regina Weber (DLA Marbach), Claudia Wedepohl (The Warburg Institute London), and Graham Whitaker (Glasgow University) "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 was 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."--Page 4 de la couverture Cover RAYMOND KLIBANSKY and the Warburg Library Network Title Copyright CONTENTS Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: From Hamburg to London and Montreal PART ONE Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Early Years and Exile 1 Keepers of the Flame: Bing, Solmitz, Klibansky, and the Continuity of the Warburg Tradition 2 The Warburg Library within German Judaism: Raymond Klibansky in His Letters to Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing 3 The Warburg Institute Reaches Out: Raymond Klibansky and His British Contacts 4 Tracing an Intellectual Afterlife in Library and Archival Sources: Raymond Klibansky and His Warburg Library Networks PART TWO The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition 5 From the Cusanus Edition to the Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi: Klibansky’s Collaborations with Ernst Hoffmann, Ernst Cassirer, and Fritz Saxl 6 Raymond Klibansky and the Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi: A Discussion of the Plato Latinus Series 7 Raymond Klibansky’s Ethics of Transmission PART THREE The Saturn and Melancholy Project 8 Editing the “Melancholy Project”: A Schematic Overview 9 The Genesis, Writing, and Re-Writing of Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl’s Dürers ‘Melencolia I’ 10 Melancholie und Saturn: A Long-Term Collective Project of the Warburg Library 11 The Melancholy of the (Co-)Author: Panofsky and the Authorship of Saturn and Melancholy 12 The Theme of Melancholy in Raymond Klibansky’s Work after 1964 Afterword Bibliography Contributors Index