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Saturn and Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history, intellectual history, and the study of culture, despite being long out of print in English. Rooted in the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library, this book has deeply influenced understandings of the interrelations between the humanities disciplines since its first publication in English in 1964. This new edition makes the original English text available for the first time in decades. Saturn and Melancholy offers an unparalleled inquiry into the origin and development of the philosophical and medical theories on which the ancient conception of the temperaments was based and discusses their connections to astro...
This book is the cutting edge in philosophy. A student of some of the greatest thinkers, Georges Leroux is publishing this essential work on ontology. To read it is to become a part of what he called "the Niente"
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Inhaltsübersicht: Einleitung von Georges Leroux, 1. Von Paris nach Heidelberg, eine gelehrsame Jugend, 2. Das literarische Heidelberg, 3. Die deutschen Meister: Eckhard und Nikolaus von Kues, 4. Von Heidelberg nach Oxford: Flucht aus Deutschland, 5. London: Der Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus, 6. Die Kinder des Saturn, 7. Von Oxford nach Montreal, 8. Die platonische Tradition, 9. Die englischen Meister: Der Gedanke der Toleranz, 10. Das Internationale Institut für Philosophie, 11. Jan Patocka, 12. Toleranz, Freiheit, Philosophie, Anhang: Anmerkungen, Glossar, Bibliographie der Bücher und Aufsätze Raymond Klibanskys, Personenregister.