Temporal Lesions: Warburg Draws the Brain

There has never been a time or place without its own philosophies and practices of memory. Yet scientists in Europe only began studying it empirically in the late 19th century, as anatomy and physiology gradually transformed this mental faculty into an object of positive knowledge. The site of that knowledge was henceforth the human brain; the path to its investigation was pathology. In 1861, Paul Broca famously elucidated how a case of aphasia – the loss of articulated speech – had been “cau..