Didi-Huberman Dictionary

This reference guide maps the ideas of Georges Didi-Huberman, a contemporary French philosopher whose writing on images has shaped the so-called visual turn in the humanities. It is written for readers who are new to his work and are looking for a research tool to help them get started.

The dictionary contains more than 150 entries, 125 of them main entries. They run from Theodor Adorno and Anthropology to Materiality and Memory, with stops at Aby Warburg and Witnessing along the way. Because Didi-Huberman's writing is densely interconnected and draws on many other texts, readers already familiar with him can use the entries to build a fuller picture of the philosophical and cultural references behind his concepts.

The entries identify his key figures, sources of inspiration and philosophical metaphors, and they document his debates with other living philosophers, including Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière. The dictionary also covers concepts and motifs from two major works that have not yet been translated into English: Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde (1992) and Ninfa moderna (2002).