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Einsamkeit und Freiheit

A fine biography of an intellectual pioneer
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October 2024, no. 469

Tangled Paths: A life of Aby Warburg by Hans C. Hönes

Reaktion Books, $49.99 hb, 288 pp

Einsamkeit und Freiheit

A fine biography of an intellectual pioneer
by
October 2024, no. 469

Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was an influential figure in the academic development of interdisciplinary studies during the early years of the twentieth century, and Hans Hönes’s excellent new biography charts the contributions and contradictions of Warburg’s life and work. Born into an immensely rich banking family in Germany, Warburg nevertheless resisted the expectations associated with his Jewish family background and, despite his grandmother’s hope that he might become a rabbi, opted to carve out for himself a career in humanities scholarship.

Tangled Paths: A life of Aby Warburg

Tangled Paths: A life of Aby Warburg

by Hans C. Hönes

Reaktion Books, $49.99 hb, 288 pp

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