{"title":"Aby Warburg y el pathos superviviente. De la psicología a la memoria social","authors":"Daniela Losiggio","doi":"10.7764/67.5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The present work aims to restore the problem of the Warburg’s method. First, we will analyse the influence of Jacob Burckhardt and Robert Vischer in the Warburguian proposal of a psychology for the approach of cultural phenomena. Then, we will discover that Warburg moves from this approach towards a new concern for the way in which impersonal forces produce historical-cultural senses. As we propose here, on the one hand, this movement is mediated by the configuration of a critique towards aestheticism and historicism (made explicit in 1900 through a famous epistolary exchange with Andre Jolles); on the other hand, it allows a better understanding of the notion of surviving pathos as well as the Warburguian interest for developing a theory of social memory, influenced by Richard Semon.","PeriodicalId":43414,"journal":{"name":"Aisthesis-Pratiche Linguaggi e Saperi dell Estetico","volume":"35 1","pages":"103-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Aisthesis-Pratiche Linguaggi e Saperi dell Estetico","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7764/67.5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"PHILOSOPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The present work aims to restore the problem of the Warburg’s method. First, we will analyse the influence of Jacob Burckhardt and Robert Vischer in the Warburguian proposal of a psychology for the approach of cultural phenomena. Then, we will discover that Warburg moves from this approach towards a new concern for the way in which impersonal forces produce historical-cultural senses. As we propose here, on the one hand, this movement is mediated by the configuration of a critique towards aestheticism and historicism (made explicit in 1900 through a famous epistolary exchange with Andre Jolles); on the other hand, it allows a better understanding of the notion of surviving pathos as well as the Warburguian interest for developing a theory of social memory, influenced by Richard Semon.
期刊介绍:
The choice of the name of the journal represents a farewell from the identification of aesthetics with hermeneutics and speculative philosophy of art. It also shows our strong commitment to the irreducibility of aesthetics to a mere psychological fact. The subtitle of the journal “practices, languages and knowledge concerning aesthetics” indicates the present, fertile pluralism of aesthetics. This is a pluralism of views and methods, often connected with the different ways in which contemporary arts and aesthetic abilities present and structure themselves. Also, it is a pluralism of thoughts and formulas, which induces to relativize the western tradition within which the discipline of aesthetics was born. Finally, it is a pluralism of epistemic landscapes, which also trespasses into the sphere of sensibility and art. These various, epistemic landscapes have recently experienced a revolutionary enlargement through the rise of some new or radically renewed disciplines (from neurosciences to anthropology, from cognitive sciences to psychobiology). Indeed, we conceive Aisthesis as a public space where those different approaches and disciplines can interact.