Kluczowym punktem, wokół którego ogniskuje się myśl Didi-Hubermana, jest „Atlas Mnemosyne” Aby Warburga. Autor używa kategorii „atlasu” do zarysowania najważniejszych problemów, z jakimi mierzyła się sztuka i kultura europejska w ogóle. Od mitologii i Pliniusza Starszego, przez Goyę, Waltera Benjamina, aż po Jorge Luisa Borgesa.
Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art.
análise geral e extremamente completa do projecto de Warburg com interessantes referências literárias (Foucault, W. Benjamin, Goethe, Nietzsche, Heine, Borges, Cassirer, ...).
Didi-Huberman writes well and with great insight on the incredible contribution of German art historian Abi Warburg. Warburg pioneered a new way of looking at art and pictures. Tracing recurring visual motifs from classical antiquity to the 20th century, Warburg showed that pictorial symbolism was burnt into our collective unconscious.