Dreamland of Humanists - Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world.

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, NC.

Summary

Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Levine, Emily J. Levine
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2013
• EAN: 9780226061689
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06168-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -