Edgar Wind

Edgar Wind ( born May 14, 1900 in Berlin, † September 12, 1971 in London ) was a German art historian and philosopher.

Life

Wind was the first student of Erwin Panofsky to Warburg school and worked after moving the Warburg Library from Hamburg to London at the Warburg Institute. He Aby Warburg (1866-1929) still met the high esteem the analytical mind of the young art historian. As Panofsky was wind Ikonologe and a specialist in Italian art and philosophy. The Platonic ideas and pagan mysteries of the Renaissance is dedicated to his main work.

His major books are the philosophical Habilitationsschrift The Experiment in Metaphysics (1934 ), the art-historical works Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance ( Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance ) (1958 ) and the philosophy of art essays Art and anarchy ( Art and Anarchy ), the Reith Lectures the BBC, 1960 sent successfully published in 1963. In addition many art historical essays about more than Michelangelo, and pioneering work come to the English art history.

Winds philosophical teacher was Ernst Cassirer. In Freiburg he had also heard lectures by Husserl and Heidegger, leaning her thinking style but strictly from. Husserl he considered irrational, and in retrospect, Heidegger was for him a genuine National Socialist. Two years in North Carolina brought him into contact with the American scientific pragmatism, and The Experiment in Metaphysics is shaped by it. Winds Even teachers Aby Warburg had its philosophical and psychological notes understood as a pragmatic philosophy and yet can admire Hegel.

Wind was dismissed in 1933 for racist reasons and emigrated to England in 1933. He went in 1940 to the United States in 1955 and came back to England. He was Oxford's first professor of art history. In 1967, wind in your retirement.

Selections

  • The experiment and the metaphysics. To resolve the cosmological antinomies ( = contributions to philosophy and its history. Bd, ZDB - ID 539410-7 ). Mohr, Tübingen, 1934.
  • Pagan mysteries in the Renaissance. Faber and Faber, London, 1958 ( in German language: Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-518-07593-4. ).
  • Art and Anarchy. The Reith Lectures 1960 revised and enlarged. Faber and Faber, London, 1963 (in German language: .. . Art and Anarchy The Reith Lectures 1960 Revised edition with the additions of 1968 and later amendments Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-07522-5, also: ( = Suhrkamp Taschenbuch science. 1163 ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3- 518-28763 -X).
  • The Eloquence of Symbols. Studies in Humanist Art Edited by Jaynie Anderson. With a biographical memoir by Hugh Lloyd -Jones. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-19-817341-5 (several editions and translations ).
  • Hume and the Heroic Portrait. Studies in Eighteenth - Century Imagery. Edited by Jaynie Anderson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986, ISBN 0-19-817371-7.
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