Numero monografico "Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods"
Abstract
The article traces the intellectual history of Gertrud Bing's doctoral thesis, highlighting the first phase of her scientific life, which is still underestimated today. The thesis, whose title is The Concept of the Necessary in Lessing. A contribution to the historical-intellectual problem of the relationship between Leibniz and Lessing, links German Literature, Psychology and Philosophy and, among its merits, establishes an important dialogue with a great German intellectual, of fundamental importance for Bing's and Warburg's thinking: Ernst Cassirer. The author traces the history of the dissertation, passing through Cassirer's recommendation for Bing to join the KBW to the profound influence Lessing and Leibniz had in the Warburg circle.
