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McGill Library Rare Books & Special Collections presents the Montreal launch of Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal.
TA presentation of the book will be made by Philippe Despoix, Jillian Tomm, and Georges Leroux, with a discussion moderated by Jean-François Vallée. A small selection of books and documents from McGill Library Rare Books & Special Collections' Raymond Klibansky Collection will be on display. Cheese and wine to follow. In partnership with Montreal Book History Group / Groupe d'histoire du livre Montréal.
The Warburg Institute, founded in the 1920s in Hamburg by art and cultural historian Aby Warburg, is a pioneering institution that has greatly shaped the fields of art, myth, religion, medicine, philosophy, and intellectual history. When, in 1933, the institute was moved to London to escape the Nazis, its research and legacy were protected and further developed by a network of researchers dispersed throughout the UK, the US, and Canada.
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 Consulting published and unpublished sources including correspondences, memories, and diaries of affiliated scholars, the essays explore the history of the Warburg Library as a vital cultural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.