- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agamben as a Reader
- 1 Aristotle
- 2 Walter Benjamin
- 3 Guy Debord
- 4 Michel Foucault
- 5 Martin Heidegger
- 6 Paul the Apostle
- 7 Carl Schmitt
- 8 Hannah Arendt
- 9 Georges Bataille
- 10 Émile Benveniste
- 11 Dante Alighieri
- 12 Gilles Deleuze
- 13 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 14 Friedrich Hölderlin
- 15 Franz Kafka
- 16 Immanuel Kant
- 17 Friedrich Nietzsche
- 18 Plato
- 19 Plotinus
- 20 Marquis de Sade
- 21 Baruch Spinoza
- 22 Aby Warburg
- 23 Theodor W. Adorno
- 24 Jacques Derrida
- 25 <i>Sigmund Freud</i>
- 26 Jacques Lacan
- 27 Karl Marx
- 28 Antonio Negri
- 29 Gershom Scholem
- 30 Simone Weil
- Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
- Contributors
- Index
Aby Warburg
Aby Warburg
- Chapter:
- (p.208) 22 Aby Warburg
- Source:
- Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
- Author(s):
Adi Efal-Lautenschläger
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
One preliminary point which must be stated regarding Agamben’s relation to the art historian Abraham (‘Aby’) Moritz Warburg (1866–1929) is that this line of questioning is not reducible to problems regarding imagery or ‘visual’ art. Agamben says explicitly that ‘only the myopia of a psychologizing history of Art could have defined [Warburg’s art history] as a “science of the image”’ (ME 53). Although most scholarship on Warburg has indeed viewed the latter’s work as laying the foundations for image and visual studies, in Agamben’s account Warburg ushers the humanities towards another kind of inquiry, one having more to do with the concept of time than with any sort of imagery or visual phenomena. In this, Agamben’s reading of Warburg differs substantially from those of major art historians influenced by Warburg, such as Horst Bredekamp (Bildakt)1 or Georges Didi-Huberman (images malgré tout).2 In fact, Agamben’s reading of Warburg’s art historical inquiries can be elaborated as a fruitful critique of the recent ‘imagist’ turn in the history of art, viewing visual artworks as being primary and essentially ‘images’.
Keywords: Aby Warburg, Imagism, Art History, PATHOSFORMELN
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- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agamben as a Reader
- 1 Aristotle
- 2 Walter Benjamin
- 3 Guy Debord
- 4 Michel Foucault
- 5 Martin Heidegger
- 6 Paul the Apostle
- 7 Carl Schmitt
- 8 Hannah Arendt
- 9 Georges Bataille
- 10 Émile Benveniste
- 11 Dante Alighieri
- 12 Gilles Deleuze
- 13 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 14 Friedrich Hölderlin
- 15 Franz Kafka
- 16 Immanuel Kant
- 17 Friedrich Nietzsche
- 18 Plato
- 19 Plotinus
- 20 Marquis de Sade
- 21 Baruch Spinoza
- 22 Aby Warburg
- 23 Theodor W. Adorno
- 24 Jacques Derrida
- 25 <i>Sigmund Freud</i>
- 26 Jacques Lacan
- 27 Karl Marx
- 28 Antonio Negri
- 29 Gershom Scholem
- 30 Simone Weil
- Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
- Contributors
- Index