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DESCRIPTION:Join 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ-Queen's University Press and ROAAr for a conversati
 on around the augmented edition of the famed Warburgian interdisciplinary 
 study on saturnine melancholy.\n\nPanel discussion with Philippe Despoix\,
  Georges Leroux\, Jillian Tomm\, and guest of honour\, Alberto Manguel.\n
 \nRSVP REQUIRED. Thank you for your interest in this event. The book launc
 h is now filled to capacity.\n\n---\n\nPhilippe Despoix is professor of co
 mparative literature at Université de Montréal and co-editor of Raymond Kl
 ibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from 
 Hamburg to London and Montreal.\n\nGeorges Leroux is emeritus professor in
  the Department of Philosophy at Université du Québec à Montréal\, co-edit
 or of Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Pere
 grinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal\, and author of Partita for
  Glenn Gould: An Inquiry into the Nature of Genius.\n\nAlberto Manguel is 
 an Argentinian-Canadian writer\, translator\, editor and critic\, born in 
 Buenos Aires in 1948. He has published several novels\, and non-fiction\, 
 including Packing My Library\, Curiosity\, With Borges\, A History of Read
 ing\, and The Library at Night. He was appointed Officer of the Order of C
 anada and he is doctor honoris causa of the universities of Ottawa and Yor
 k in Canada\, and Liège in Belgium and Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge\, UK. Un
 til August of 2018 he was the director of the National Library of Argentin
 a.\n\nJillian Tomm\, is a librarian and co-editor of Raymond Klibansky and
  the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to 
 London and Montreal.\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\nSaturn and Melancholy: Studies
  in the History of Natural Philosophy\, Religion\, and Art (New Edition) b
 y Raymond Klibansky\, Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl\n\nEdited by Phillippe
  Despoix and Georges Leroux\n\nWith a preface by Bill Sherman\n\nSaturn an
 d Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history\, intellectual history\
 , and the study of culture\, despite being long out of print in English. R
 ooted in the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library\
 , this book has deeply influenced understandings of the interrelations bet
 ween the humanities disciplines since its first publication in English in 
 1964.\n	\n	This new edition makes the original English text available for th
 e first time in decades. Saturn and Melancholy offers an unparalleled inqu
 iry into the origin and development of the philosophical and medical theor
 ies on which the ancient conception of the temperaments was based and disc
 usses their connections to astrological and religious ideas. It also trace
 s representations of melancholy in literature and the arts up to the sixte
 enth century\, culminating in a landmark analysis of Dürer's most famous e
 ngraving\, Melencolia I. This edition features Raymond Klibansky's additio
 nal introduction and bibliographical amendments for the German edition\, a
 s well as translations of source material and 155 original illustrations. 
 An essay on the complex publication history of this pathbreaking project -
  which almost did not see the light of day - covers more than eighty years
 \, including its more recent heritage.\n	\n	Making new a classic book that h
 as been out of print for over four decades\, this expanded edition present
 s fresh insights about Saturn and Melancholy and its legacy as a precursor
  to modern interdisciplinary studies.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Rare Books and Special Collections\, 4th floor\, Colgate Room\, Mc
 Lennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Book Launch | Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natu
 ral Philosophy\, Religion\, and Art (New  Edition)
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