La pervivencia del paganismo : Aportaciones a la historia cultural del Renacimiento europeo

As Georges Didi-Huberman says, “With Warburg, the thinking about art and the thinking about history underwent a decisive shift. After Warburg, we no longer encountered the image and time as before.” Through an original working method, inspired by the work of figures as seemingly disparate as Freud and Darwin, Aby Warburg revolutionized not only our understanding of art, but also our conception of time, by analyzing images as forms of thought that traverse the entire history of humanity and challenge the boundaries between present, past, and future. After Warburg, we could no longer see or remember in the same way. The Survival of Paganism collects all the articles he wrote, between Hamburg and Florence, as long as his mental health allowed. From his early works on Botticelli's Primavera and The Birth of Venus to his later essays on astrological culture in the milieu of Martin Luther, Aby Warburg's writings form a dense tapestry woven from threads as disparate as poetry, the history of astrology, and magic, and, of course, images—the fundamental repository of history's psychological memory. An exuberant and ambitious body of work that redefined the contours of art history, it constitutes the essential legacy of one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century.