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Warburg, Kandinsky, and Shestov on Renewal of Art and Humanity
Artistic, Philosophical, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Warburg, Kandinsky, and Shestov on Renewal of Art and Humanity
Artistic, Philosophical, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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This monograph analyses the thoughts of the three thinkers in dialogue with Freud's analytic observations and those of other Freudian analysts, and with reference to the ideas of such scholars of the Western intellectual tradition.
Three outstanding figures of Freud's century, art historian Aby Warburg, philosopher Lev Shestov and painter Wassily Kandinsky shared a vision of art as 'the journey of the mind' and made efforts to restore a connection with the primal and unsullied roots of art. Based on my research in the Warburg Library, the Library and Special Collections of the British Psychoanalytic Society at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the study of Warburg's and Shestov's archival materials, the monograph is a comparative reading of the three contemporaries' thoughts on the nature and power of artistic image and the function of art in societal life. By engaging Freud's and other analysts' insights into art with those of Warburg, Shestov and Kandinsky, the interdisciplinary study of the theme of the renewal evokes interconnections between philosophical, artistic and psychoanalytic perspectives.
Table of Contents
Part I. Aby Warburg and Wassily Kandinsky: The Pioneers of “Thinking in Pictures.”
Chapter 1. Between Logos and Mythos: Warburg and Kandinsky on Symbols.
Chapter 2. Warburg and Kandinsky on the Renewal of Visual Culture.
Part II. The Seen and the Unseen. On the Paths of Transformation Taken by the Mind.
Chapter 3. The Notion of the Sudden Fundamental Transformation in Lev Shestov's Philosophy.
Chapter 4. On Artistic Divination: Kandinsky and the “Fourth Dimension.”
Part III. Remote Times and Metaphoric Distances.
Chapter 5. Karl Jaspers and Lev Shestov: Philosophical Faith and Faith in Revelation.
Chapter 6. The Phenomenon of the Struwwelpeter in Warburg's Cultural Theory.
Conclusion. Between Humanity and Divinity in Twentieth-century Image Culture.
Appendix. Some Remarks on the Question of the Aggadah and the Philosophy of Lev Shestov.
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Product details
| Published | Jan 08 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781666964943 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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