{"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}
Aby Warburg y el pathos superviviente. De la psicología a la memoria social
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.