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by Emily J. Levine


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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.

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  • Title Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
  • Author Emily J. Levine
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition.
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2013-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226061689 / 022606168X
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Cassirer, Ernst, Warburg, Aby
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013022613
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.435

About the author

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.
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