Dreamland of Humanists

Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Emily Levine

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University of Chicago Press
16 December 2013

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; History of ideas

Deemed 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 course of cultural and intellectual history in Weimar Germany and throughout the world.

In Dreamland of Humanists, Emily J. Levine considers not just these men, but the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form. Shedding light on the origins of their work on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Levine clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany’s intellectual world. By examining the role that context plays in our analysis of ideas, Levine confirms that great ideas—like great intellectuals—must come from somewhere.

By: Emily Levine
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 737g
ISBN: 9780226061689
ISBN 10: 022606168X
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 16 December 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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, NC.

Reviews for Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Dreamland of Humanists is a deeply-researched, well-structured, and elegantly written work of history that brings to life the city of Hamburg, a place which, thanks to its unique Hanseatic economic and political traditions, served as a welcome home for the Warburg Library and the three German Jewish intellectuals most closely associated with its name. Levine should be commended. --Peter E. Gordon author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos