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instrument for cultural research as he conceived it, is what I want you to remember most at this centenary of his birth. Both in its arrangement and in its holdings the library was to embody W arburgs faith in m ans need to remember his origins and to come to terms with them. It was thus to be an aid in m ans continuous search for enlightenment, reminding him of past triumphs when astronomy emerged from the dark fears of astrology, chem-istry from alchemy, or mathematics from number mysticism. But it is sym-bolic that Warburg always separated the texts from comment in his library, keeping the evidence from its interpretation. Those who reconsider it are not bound by the reading of the past. Yet, if ever there was an institute that bore the name of its founder with justification, it is ours, for what Aby Warburg left us was not money but tools of research and the impulse to ask questions to which the library may well hold the answer. If I may search the collective memory for a formula which can be used rhetorically but can also be charged with fresh meaning let me say with conviction: Si monumentum , circumspice ... Warburg s real m onument is this library. notes
DOI link for instrument for cultural research as he conceived it, is what I want you to remember most at this centenary of his birth. Both in its arrangement and in its holdings the library was to embody W arburgs faith in m ans need to remember his origins and to come to terms with them. It was thus to be an aid in m ans continuous search for enlightenment, reminding him of past triumphs when astronomy emerged from the dark fears of astrology, chem-istry from alchemy, or mathematics from number mysticism. But it is sym-bolic that Warburg always separated the texts from comment in his library, keeping the evidence from its interpretation. Those who reconsider it are not bound by the reading of the past. Yet, if ever there was an institute that bore the name of its founder with justification, it is ours, for what Aby Warburg left us was not money but tools of research and the impulse to ask questions to which the library may well hold the answer. If I may search the collective memory for a formula which can be used rhetorically but can also be charged with fresh meaning let me say with conviction: Si monumentum , circumspice ... Warburg s real m onument is this library. notes
instrument for cultural research as he conceived it, is what I want you to remember most at this centenary of his birth. Both in its arrangement and in its holdings the library was to embody W arburgs faith in m ans need to remember his origins and to come to terms with them. It was thus to be an aid in m ans continuous search for enlightenment, reminding him of past triumphs when astronomy emerged from the dark fears of astrology, chem-istry from alchemy, or mathematics from number mysticism. But it is sym-bolic that Warburg always separated the texts from comment in his library, keeping the evidence from its interpretation. Those who reconsider it are not bound by the reading of the past. Yet, if ever there was an institute that bore the name of its founder with justification, it is ours, for what Aby Warburg left us was not money but tools of research and the impulse to ask questions to which the library may well hold the answer. If I may search the collective memory for a formula which can be used rhetorically but can also be charged with fresh meaning let me say with conviction: Si monumentum , circumspice ... Warburg s real m onument is this library. notes
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