News/Nouvelles
01/09/2025 NEWS: The long-awaited English translation of Raymond Klibansky’s published interviews with Georges Leroux is now available from MQUP.
The interviews, beautifully translated by Peter Feldstein, cover Raymond Klibansky’s entire trajectory (1905-2005), from early years as a Jewish student in Germany in the 1920s and early 30s, to his work – both scholarly and towards the war effort – in England in the 1930s and 40s, and through his subsequent years of teaching, scholarship and activism in Montreal and Oxford, and within the Institut International de Philosophie based in Paris.
The book stands as testimony of an extraordinary life and oeuvre, but in addition shares an intimate view of the response of entire communities (around Ernst Cassirer… around Aby Warburg… out of UK universities… of new global initiatives like the IIP, etc.) to the European and global upheavals in the early and middle decades of the 20th century.
26/09/2024 EVENT: “Raymond Klibansky & the Craft of Translation“, a presentation by Peter Feldstein.
An event of the James McGill Society
Thurs. September 26, 5:00 pm, at McGill University (Colgate Room, Rare Books & Special Collections, 4th Floor McLennan Library, 3459 McTavish Street)
Peter Feldstein, BA’84, a recipient of Canada’s highest literary award for translation, will speak on the challenges of translating “Le philosophe et la mémoire du siècle, Entretiens avec Georges Leroux” (2000).
- Join in person (RSVP susan.button@mcgill.ca)
- Join on YouTube
Open to all
22/01/2024 LANCEMENT du livre:
Jeudi 1er février 2024, 17 h 30, Librairie Le Port de tête
222, avenue du Mont-Royal Est Montréal
Philippe Despoix sera en conversation avec Maude Trottier sur son nouveau livre: KBW – La bibliothèque Warburg, laboratoire de pensée intermédiale, par Philippe Despoix (ed. canadienne: Les presses du réel, avec PUM, 2024)
“Laboratoire à la croisée des disciplines, la KBW fut avant tout un espace de pensée intermédiale où se conjuguent des gestes techniques : photographier et collecter, cartographier et mettre en série, construire des voisinages, projeter et exposer. Seuls ces modes de visualisation peuvent éclairer toute la portée des concepts warburgiens connus (« formule de pathos », « vie posthume », « migration des images », etc.). C’est l’articulation dynamique de ces opérations, au cœur desquelles se trouve la reproduction photographique, qui distingue la Bibliothèque et sa collection d’images en tant que dispositif plurimédial de connaissance. Sa reconstruction détaillée explicite ici les modalités de l’« espace de pensée » ouvert par l’instrumentaire warburgien, la singularité de son anthropologie visuelle ainsi que son potentiel toujours critique.”
06/11/2023 Rappel aux chercheurs de cette annonce de la La Fédération des sciences humaines:
“Depuis avril 2023, la Fédération a introduit deux nouvelles subventions supplémentaires pour soutenir et encourager la publication en libre accès, en plus des 180 subventions de publication existantes de 8 000 $ :
- 8 000 $ pour les livres disponibles en libre accès
- 2 000 $ pour les chapitres disponibles en libre accès
Cette année, neuf (9) subventions pour des livres en libre accès sont disponibles, ainsi que neuf (9) subventions pour des chapitres en libre accès.”
01/08/2023 V Congreso Internacional Cusano de Latinoamérica:
“El Círculo de Estudios Cusanos de Buenos Aires, el Instituto de Filosofía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, junto a la Società Cusaniana (Torino) y la Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte (Bernkastel-Kues), tienen el agrado de anunciar la realización del V Congreso Internacional Cusano de Latinoamérica, que tendrá lugar en Buenos Aires del 08 al 11 de agosto de 2023, bajo el lema: “De coniecturis. Fuentes, desarrollos y proyecciones del ars coniecturalis”.
Incluye:
09 de agosto: “Raymond Klibansky y el De coniecturis: algunas relaciones
biográficas” por Roberto Casazza (Universidad de Buenos Aires – Universidad Nacional de
Rosario).
Programa completo
30/05/2023 From the staff of McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections:
Conference participants to “The Reception of German Mysticism in Early Modern England“, sponsored by the The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and the McGill School of Religious Studies Pavillon Birks, McGill University , 24—26 May 2023, received a guided visit of The Raymond Klibansky Collection, which holds a number of 17th-c. editions of Jacob Boehme and Valentin Weigel, among others.
The Klibansky Collection is also featured, along with several other McGill RBSC items, in the virtual exhibition “Amor Mi Mosse Che Mi Fa Parlare” created to celebrate Dante’s 700th anniversary in 2021. The exhibition brought together works from libraries in Montreal (McGill University, l’Université de Montréal, and Concordia University) with the Biblioteca Nazionale «Vittorio Emanuele II» of Naples, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence. Among the books from the Klibansky Collection that formed part of the team’s study, shown in the exhibition is a diagram of “The Tenth Heaven – The Spaceless Empyrean – or Paradise” from a relatively recent volume, a 1900 Dent edition of Edmund G. Gardner’s, Dante, with title page designed by Reginald L. Knowles (Raymond Klibansky Collection, PQ 4335 G3 1900).
[02/05/2023] From “La lettre d’information des Archives Poincaré (novembre 2022)” online:
“Du côté des projets: Les archives de l’Institut International de Philosophie sont conservées depuis quelques années à Nancy, confiées à notre laboratoire. Gerhard Heinzmann a présenté, lors de l’assemblée générale de l’IIP en octobre, à Bonn, un projet de recherche intitulé “Scientific and patrimonial valorization of the archive of the IIP”, qu’il co-dirigera avec Pascal Engel (Paris) et Jure Zovko (Zadar). Ce projet vise à étudier les efforts réalisés dans les années 1930 et après la seconde guerre mondiale pour internationaliser la philosophie, et abordera donc des questions liées à la circulation et à la communication de la connaissance philosophique, mais aussi à l’histoire de l’influence des philosophes sur la politique internationale en matière de science. Il possédera également un versant d’humanités numériques, sur lequel Pierre Willaime sera impliqué.”
[15/03/2023] From the websites of the Warburg Institute, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin:
Visit the Aby Warburg Bilderatlas Mnemosyne Virtual Exhibition (launched 2021). Virtual tour includes access to Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – the Original held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and Between Cosmos and Pathos: Berlin Works from Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas at the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
[20/02/2023] From the website of Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences:
For financial support for publishing in the humanities in Canada, see the Aid to scholarly publications program: “The Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales, each worth $10,000, are awarded annually to the best scholarly books that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP).”
Latest books/Derniers livres
Raymond Klibansky: A Life in Philosophy.
By Raymond Klibansky and Georges Leroux, Translated by Peter Feldstein McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.
The essential autobiographical account of Klibansky’s life, first published in French in 1998, is now available for English readers from MQUP.
From the publisher: “Born in Paris in 1905 to a German-Jewish family from Frankfurt and dying a century later in Montreal, Raymond Klibansky lived a life indelibly coloured by the history of the twentieth century. His thought shaped and was shaped by intellectual currents both European and American, and his scholarly work entailed an intellectual reckoning with tradition that was unique in its scope and ambition, long before talk of academic interdisciplinarity.”
Un pays selon mon coeur. Entretiens avec Ethel Groffier
Avec Georges Leroux. Éditions Somme Toute, 2024.
Includes several chapters on Ethel Groffier’s years with Raymond Klibansky, from 1986 until his death in 2005.
Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus: Essays in Honor of Donald F. Duclow. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 201). Edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, and Michael Moore. Brill, 2023.
Includes:
Michael Edward Moore. “Raymond Klibansky and the Platonic Tradition from Plato’s Timaeus to Nicholas of Cusa.”
“Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg”. Das intellektuelle Netzwerk der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg
Edited by Ernst Müller and Barbara Picht. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2023. Open Access
Includes (touching on Klibansky):
Philippe Despoix. “Ernst Hoffmann: Ein Platoniker und Dialogpartner Ernst Cassirers in der Bibliothek Warburg.”
From the Warburg Library Network / du Réseau de la bibliothèque Warburg (Chief investigator/Directeur: Philippe Despoix, Université de Montréal):
Philippe Despoix
KBW – La bibliothèque Warburg, laboratoire de pensée intermédiale. By Philippe Despoix. Dijon/Montréal: Les presses du réel with PUM, 2023 (electronic and in print)
Gertrud Bing
Fragments sur Aby Warburg. Edited by Philippe Despoix and Martin Treml. Paris: INHA, 2020
Raymond Klibansky, Fritz Saxl & Erwin Panofsky
Saturn and Melancholy. Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art. (New edition). Edited by Phillippe Despoix and Georges Leroux. With a preface by Bill Sherman. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019
Raymond Klibansky and The Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal. Edited by Phillippe Despoix and Jillian Tomm, With Eric Méchoulan and Georges Leroux. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018
Raymond Klibansky
Tradition antique et tolérance moderne. Textes choisis et présentés par Philippe Despoix et Georges Leroux. PUM, 2016
Regina Weber
Lotte Labowsky – Schülerin Aby Warburgs, Kollegin Raymond Klibanskys. Eine Wissenschaftlerin zwischen Fremd- und Selbstbestimmung im englischen Exil. (Hamburger Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Bd. 21. Hrsg. v. Rainer Nicolaysen und Eckart Krause). Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin/Hamburg 2012.
Regina Weber’s book, and the letters between Labowsky and Klibansky held at the DLA, Marbach, are among the sources used for the 2022 book Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman (Chatto and Windus, Doubleday and others), which appeared on the New York Times ‘Notable Books’ list and the New Yorker ‘Best Books of 2022’. Letters cited from Labowsky, writing from Oxford in the early 1950s, to Klibansky, then in Canada, mention in particular conversations with Elizabeth Anscombe, who worked with each of them on various endeavours. (Our thanks to John Berkman for alerting us to this.)
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