1st Edition

Critical Image Configurations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman

Edited By Stijn De Cauwer, Laura Katherine Smith Copyright 2019
168 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

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. Beginning with a translated exchange on the politics of images between Jacques Rancière and Georges Didi-Huberman, the volume further contains a translation of Didi-Huberman’s essay on... Read more

Foreword

Stijn De Cauwer and Laura Katherine Smith

Introduction – Critical Image Configurations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman

Stijn De Cauwer and Laura Katherine Smith

1. Images Re-read: The Method of Georges Didi-Huberman

Jacques Rancière. Translated by Elise Woodard, Jorge Rodriguez Solorzano, Stijn De Cauwer and Laura Katherine Smith

2. Image, Language: The Other Dialectic

Georges Didi-Huberman. Translated by Elise Woodard, Jorge Rodriguez Solorzano, Stijn De Cauwer and Laura Katherine Smith

3. La Dama Duende [The Phantom Lady]

Georges Didi-Huberman. Translated by Christopher Woodall

4. The Readability of Images (and) of History: Laudatio on the Occasion of the Awarding of the Adorno Prize (2015) to Georges Didi-Huberman

Sigrid Weigel. Translated by Michiel Rys and Jan Vanvelk

5. He or She Who Glimpses, Desires, is Wounded: A Dialogue in the Interspace (zwischenraum) between Aby Warburg and Georges Didi-Huberman

Barbara Baert

6. The People-Image: The Political Philosophy of Georges Didi-Huberman

Ludger Schwarte. Translated by Christopher Woodall

7. Eyes Wide Open: What the Eye of History compels us to do

Robert Harvey

8. Phasmid Thinking: On Georges Didi-Huberman’s Method

Emmanuel Alloa. Translated by Christopher Woodall

9. Re-Imagining the "Loss of Place": Georges Didi-Huberman and the Aura after Benjamin

Laura Katherine Smith

10. Searching for Fireflies: Pathos and Imagination in the Theories of Georges Didi-Huberman

Stijn De Cauwer

Biography

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.