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This paper situates the intellectual concerns of Panofsky’s great Logos article of 1932 (‘On the Problem of Describing and Interpreting Works of the Visual Arts’).  This was his last major theoretical paper in German, published shortly before the beginning of the Nazi era and his American exile.  It is also the foundation for the theory of Iconology, which would be his major contribution to Anglophone art history.  We examine the ideological and conceptual underpinnings and constraints on the writing of the piece – including its attempts to find a mid-point between Panofsky’s 1920s Warburgianism and neo-Kantianism, on the one hand, and the more essentialist approaches of the Second Vienna School and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, on the other. We compare these with some of the impulses that may be thought to govern the paper’s two revisions in America (in 1939 and 1955), and through this comparison aim to explore some of the fundamental drives governing Panofsky’s art historical enterprise between Germany and America.

Defining Israeli identity – both individual and collective – as post-Biltmore Plan, post-Zionist is exactly what will allow Israelis to take responsibility for the Palestinian Nakba. It means remaining within Derrida's aporetic situation rather than transforming it into something binary and static.

This article analyses how neoliberal ideology conceives the public sector in general and, in particular, how this translates to an ‘economic’ higher education sector.

Freud's patients were surprised to find themselves surrounded by objects they would never have associated with the psychoanalytic cure. For example, what was the Gradiva, a representation of movement, doing in a situation that assigns to the analysand and the analyst immobile body positions?

In Summer 2012, Critical Inquiry will present a special issue edited by Joel Snyder, Diarmuid Costello, and Margaret Iverson devoted to photography and the questions of automatism and agency. Bringing together philosophers, photographers and art historians, the issue will set a new standard for the integration of theory, practice and scholarship.  Contributors will include Carol Armstrong, Diarmuid Costello, Margaret Iverson, Robin Kelsey, Susan Laxton, Patrick Maynard, and Jeff Wall.