Mnemosyne. Un Trauerspiel moderno da Amburgo. In bianco e nero
Warburg’s inquiry does not oppose Renaissance to Baroque; on the contrary the Renaissance shows here the features of those melancholy which for Benjamin belongs to the seventeen-century “Trauerspiel”. The melancholy constellation of the past, the mirror in which – both for Benjamin and for Warburg –...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Aisthesis |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/11013 |
| Summary: | Warburg’s inquiry does not oppose Renaissance to Baroque; on the contrary the Renaissance shows here the features of those melancholy which for Benjamin belongs to the seventeen-century “Trauerspiel”. The melancholy constellation of the past, the mirror in which – both for Benjamin and for Warburg – actuality looks at itself, is enlightened in Benjamin by a redemption spark that is denied to Warburg. The set of photographic fragments to which, like a modern “Trauerspiel”, the “Mnemosyne Atlas” reduces the world does’t admit indeed any transcendence. |
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| ISSN: | 2035-8466 |