Georges Didi Huberman: 19 books

Book cover of Bark
by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them...
Book cover of Being a Skull

Being a Skull

Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture

by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to touch thought? For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through a careful study of Penone’s work regarding a sculptural...
Book cover of Survival of the Fireflies
by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber...
Book cover of Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science
by Georges Didi-Huberman, Shane B. Lillis
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018

Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1925–1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg’s allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had...
Book cover of La conoscenza accidentale
by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Alla strada maestra del metodo, si sa, convengono ordine, precisione e principi distintivi. Ma producono conoscenza, e non di rango inferiore, anche gli sviamenti, gli attimi di pura fascinazione per ciò che non stavamo cercando e che ci viene incontro con la felice impertinenza della casualità, interpellandoci...
Book cover of Quando le immagini prendono posizione

Quando le immagini prendono posizione

L’occhio della storia I

by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 13, 2018

A partire dall’analisi delle opere L’Abicì della guerra e Diario di lavoro, Georges Didi-Huberman approfondisce le dinamiche, le idee e le disposizioni formali della riflessione di Bertolt Brecht sulla guerra. Un percorso originale che, passando in rassegna i documenti visuali e i reportage fotografici...
Book cover of Davanti all'immagine

Davanti all'immagine

Domanda posta ai fini di una storia dell’arte

by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2018

Un’intima e accurata interrogazione sulle certezze che possediamo davanti alle immagini. Le stesse immagini che sono quotidianamente afferrate in virtù di precise categorie del pensiero. Qual è la genealogia che anima quelle categorie? Questa è la domanda posta da Didi-Huberman alla storia dell’arte,...
Book cover of Foucault Against Himself
by François Caillat, Leo Bersani, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015

In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked. In Francois Caillat's provocative collection of essays and interviews based on his French...
Book cover of What Is a People?
by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu...
Book cover of I percorsi dell'immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani
by Maurizio Ferraris, Roberto Perpignani, Roberto De Gaetano
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2016

I percorsi dell’immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani è un volume che vuole rendere omaggio a uno dei maggiori studiosi italiani di estetica, di cinema, di arti e nuove tecnologie. Diviso in cinque sezioni (Filosofia, Semiotica e teoria dei linguaggi, Cinema, Teoria delle arti...
Book cover of Cuando las imágenes toman posición
by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2015

La figura del poeta y dramaturgo Bertolt Brecht sirve de guía a Georges Didi-Huberman para mostrar las encrucijadas de la estética del siglo xx, germen de los problemas del arte actual. Guerra, exilio, vanguardias estéticas, compromiso político y nacimiento de la industria cultural, Cuando las...
Book cover of Qu'est-ce qu'un peuple ?
by Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière
Language: French
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Le mot "peuple" a tant de sens différents qu’un danger en découle : celui de le ranger dans le vaste ensemble de mots en caoutchouc qui servent avant tout au maintien de l’ordre existant. Et de fait, certains usages du mot – comme le jugement et l’envoi en prison "Au nom du...
Book cover of Conversations on Cinema
by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013

Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would...
Book cover of CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana
by Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla...
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