Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting Warburg's many projects and identities – ground-breaking historian, public intellectual, ethnographer, shrewd academic administrator and founder of a library – Hans C. Hönes explores not only the vagaries of an academic career but the personal demons of a man who relentlessly sought to live up to his own expectations. This biography – the first in English for over fifty years – presents an evocative and richly detailed portrait of Warburg's personality and career, and of his attempts to make sense of the tangled paths of his life.

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- English
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 A Life in Retrospect
- 2 Becoming an Art Historian
- 3 Travels in the World of Symbols
- 4 Voices from the Past
- 5 Itineraries: Warburg’s Destiny
- 6 Hamburg: The Making of a Public–Private Scholar
- 7 Fighting Border–Guard Mentality
- 8 In Turmoil: Reassembling Life
- 9 The Tower
- 10 ‘Mnemosyne’: Warburg’s Curtain Call
- 11 Alpha and Omega
- REFERENCES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX
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