gesang reviewed Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism by Erwin Panofsky (Meridian books, #M44)
Demonstration of the Warburgian Method
5 stars
The paradigmatic work that demonstrates the methods of Warburg (or Hamburg) School of Art History, and more broadly, iconology and iconography. In conjunction with Vienna School's method and the Neo-Kantian theoretical background of the German countries from WWI to WWII, human culture is for the first time genuinely treated as a unified system, fulfilling the long march of German symbolic theology and German philosophy from Origen and Augustine of Hippo's theological anthropology, to Joachim of Fiore to Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehme, to Giambattista Vico, to Herder, to Kant's philosophical anthropology, and to Goethe, to Hegel, and finally to Dilthey and Rickert, in its yearning for true inwardness and the self-knowledge of the depth of human - Imago Dei - spirit.