Critical Image Configurations: The Work of Georges Didi-Huberman

<p>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. </p><p>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 Georges Bataille’s writings on art. The articles in this book explore the influence of Theodor Adorno and Aby Warburg on Didi-Huberman’s work the relationship between ‘image’ and ‘people' his insights on witnessing and memory the theme of <i>phasmids </i>and his reflections on aura pathos and the imagination. </p><p>Taken as a whole the book will give readers an insight into the rich and expansive work of Didi-Huberman beyond the books that are currently available in English. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities</i>.</p>