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Warburgs Denkraum: Formen, Motive, Materialien

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Zu den besonderen Wortprägungen des Hamburger Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlers Aby Warburg gehört die Figur des Denkraums. Als Warburg sie 1920 zum ersten Mal verwendet, stellt sie ein Krisenphänomen dar: werkimmanent, zeitdiagnostisch, theoriebildend. Nicht zuletzt ist sie Ausdruck des Ringens um Selbstvergewisserung, wenn nicht gar Selbstheilung des von seiner schweren psychischen Erkrankung Genesenden. In dem vorliegenden Band wird der Denkraum sowohl in seinem zeitgenössischen, ideengeschichtlichen Kontext als auch in seiner konzeptionellen Bedeutung für die Bild- und Kunstwissenschaft untersucht.

Mit Beiträgen von Martin Deppner, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sabine Flach, Uwe Fleckner, Thomas Hensel, Spyros Papapetros, Laurence A. Rickels, Davide Stimilli, Martin Treml, Claudia Wedepohl, Sigrid Weigel und Cornelia Zumbusch

286 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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April 5, 2014
This collection of essays addresses the many facets of Warburg's concept of Denkraum, his neologism for the idea of a gap between stimulus, reaction, and measured response. In his recently published Frammenti sull'espressione. Grundlegende Bruchstücke zu einer pragmatischen Ausdruckskunde, Warburg explores the notion of a science of culture as being comprised of, among other things, the efforts of individuals to depict artistically, images that support and generate what the Greeks called Sophrosyne.

I am particularly interested in the fact that Warburg incorporated the ideas of emotion and expression into his thinking about the evolution of style and culture as early as 1888, and was generating biologistic hypotheses about the neuronal structure of the pathways and patterns of the transition up from a grasping and grunting "primitive" mentality toward a refined moral consciousness via Denkraum.

These biological issues are discussed explicitly in the outstanding contributions by Claudia Wedepohl, Spyros Papapetros, and Sigrid Weigel.

Very highly recommended.
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