LONDON (UK) LAUNCH: Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network

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The public is invited to celebrate the launch of Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal, edited by Philippe Despoix and Jillian Tomm, with the collaboration of Eric Méchoulan and Georges Leroux.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The first interdisciplinary study of the Warburg network as an arena of intellectual transmission, transformation, and exchange, this volume reveals the dynamics, agencies, and actors at play in the development of the Warburg Institute's program and output, with a specific focus on the role of Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005) in the institute's major ventures. Among these collective projects of the institute are the famous Saturn and Melancholy, which blends art history with philosophical and cultural history, and the Latin and Arabic Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi series, which contributed to research on the continuity of Platonic thought. Consulting published and unpublished sources including correspondences, memories, and diaries of affiliated scholars, the essays explore the history of the Warburg Library as a vital cultural institution and the personal and intellectual relationships of the researchers devoted to it.

Philippe Despoix is professor of comparative literature and director of the Center for Intermedial Research in Arts, Literatures and Technologies at Université de Montréal. Jillian Tomm is author of a number of essays on the Raymond Klibansky Collection of McGill University Library. Eric Méchoulan is professor of French literature at Université de Montréal. Georges Leroux is professor emeritus at the Department of Philosophy at Université de Québec à Montréal.