PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Emily J. Levine is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Born in New York City, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.
From its inception in the early 1900s to its relocation to London in 1933, the Warburg Library in Hamburg was a symbol of holistic cultural study and humanistic learning, while the men most closely associated with the Library Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky, and Ernst Cassirer were vital to the symbolic turn that marked so much of twentieth-century thought.Emily Levine skillfully weaves together three men, a library, and a city in this compelling study of a crucial moment in modern intellectual history.She significantly enhances our understanding of the ideas and the shared urban and institutional context of these pivotal thinkers, while recasting Weimar culture in light of a shifting focus from the capital to Germany s second city. --Warren Breckman, author of Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy
