Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School PUB20191025 A New York Times Notable

A New York Times Notable Book

Published: 08/01/2009

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Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School PUB20191025 A New York Times NotableDeemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth century pioneers in the humanities emerged. Working side by side, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky developed new avenues in art history, cultural history, and philosophy, changing the