Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
by
Emily J. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
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....