The Remembrance of Things Past: On Aby M. Warburg and Walter Benjamin

by Matthew Rampley and Professor Matthew Rampley

The art historian Aby M. Warburg and the philosopher Walter Benjamin are widely respected as two of the most significant cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Their common interests in historiography, the function of collective memory, and the relation of modern society to earlier stages of human social existence, were important examples of the attempt to articulate, analyse and represent the experience of modernity. Drawing on a variety of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447042990
• ISBN13: 9783447042994
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 138 Pages