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This contribution, by Alessandro Dal Lago, is the entry Warburg for the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy edited by Gianni Vattimo. Dal Lago rejects the definition of Warburg as an art historian, pointing out how he extends his research to Anthropology, History of Religions, and Science of Culture. Reference is also made, groundbreakingly, to Mnemosyne as a great project that remained unfinished, where Warburg “should have identified the classical symbols that, through secular transformations, manage to influence modern art”.

We publish here the Introduction from Maurizio Ghelardi’s new book, Aby Warburg, uno spazio per il pensiero. The volume is a collection of essays by Maurizio Ghelardi that represent an investigation into the vast and variegated corpus of Warburg's research, whose thinking spreads out in different ways, “radiating the dense web of his thought”. Thus, Ghelardi's essays collected in this volumee emphasises the need to continue research into Warburg vast unpublished materials.