A Well-Tempered Modernist.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Lang, Colin
- Source
- New German Critique. Feb022, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p41-66. 26p.
- Subject
- *ART theory
*ART criticism
- Language
- ISSN
- 0094-033X
The article focuses on the Akademie der Künste in West Berlin on April 21, 1966, Hans Blumenberg delivered a lecture on Paul Valéry and his appreciation for the unique intelligence of Leonardo da Vinci and his work: "Paul Valérys möglicher Leonardo da Vinci." Topics include the lecture formed part of a series of texts that the philosopher was to devote to the French poet, and the critical role: "Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics" and "The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object."