Critical Image Configurations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman

This book illuminates a variety of the key themes and positions that are developed in the work of art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, one of the most influential image-theorists of our time. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Autorentext

Stijn De Cauwer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies and Literary Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Laura Katherine Smith is a Postdoctoral Assistant in Cultural Studies and Literary Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Inhalt

Foreword Introduction - Critical Image Configurations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman 1. Images Re-read: The Method of Georges Didi-Huberman 2. Image, Language: The Other Dialectic 3. La Dama Duende [The Phantom Lady] 4. The Readability of Images (and) of History: Laudatio on the Occasion of the Awarding of the Adorno Prize (2015) to Georges Didi-Huberman 5. He or She Who Glimpses, Desires, is Wounded: A Dialogue in the Interspace (zwischenraum) between Aby Warburg and Georges Didi-Huberman 6. The People-Image: The Political Philosophy of Georges Didi-Huberman 7. Eyes Wide Open: What the Eye of History compels us to do 8. Phasmid Thinking: On Georges Didi-Huberman's Method 9. Re-Imagining the "Loss of Place": Georges Didi-Huberman and the Aura after Benjamin 10. Searching for Fireflies: Pathos and Imagination in the Theories of Georges Didi-Huberman