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Art as Science - Science as Art,
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This review is from: Cahiers: Notebooks (Volume 2) (Hardcover)
The intellectual enterprise of Paul Valery was a unique one. He devoted the greatest part of his life in work of the mind to examining the workings of his own mind. He did so in the hope at one point anyway, of establishing a mathematical understanding of how the Mind works. In later years his ambition as he sensed its impossibility , was transformed and persisted in his precise definition of his own creative efforts. In this he wrote with an aphoristic lucidity, and a poetic intensity which are almost too difficult to bear over many long pages.
His notebooks come to over twenty some odd in French . They have been translated, edited and presented in this two volume 'Peter Lang ' edition. Valery is a poetic thinker, and one of startling originality . Cliche cannot be found here, and formula- writing is far from his mind. His whole enterprise was courageous and single. And the renown he won in later years somewhat surprised but never overwhelmed him. Like his great hero and example Leonardo he was a precise observer who made of science, art, and of art, science. His work will not convert you , but it will make you ' think' and ' think again', hopefully , poetically.
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