Modern ’Uomo Universalis’
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Topic: Modern ’Uomo Universalis’
Posted By: druidebaron.nl
Subject: Modern ’Uomo Universalis’
Date Posted: 26-Mar-2005 at 15:10
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So who are Leonardo da Vincis of the 19th and 20th century? Or is an Uomo Universalis impossible in the modern age?
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Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 27-Mar-2005 at 02:52
If we're talking 19th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) came pretty close to be an "Uomo Universalis" or "renaissance man".
Although best known as a playwright, poet and novelist, he excelled also as a scientist, philosopher and diplomat.
I have no idea if he could paint or draw, he probably didn't have the time.
I can't think of any contempory person, for whom the label would fit, the specialisations of academic and artistic subjects have gone too far and too deep, but I will admire anybody who looks beyond his specific field, and instead of being what we call in German a "Fachidiot", looks at the bigger picture and sees his own subject in perspective and context.
Noam Chomsky does so, for example.
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Posted By: druidebaron.nl
Date Posted: 27-Mar-2005 at 06:55
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Yes, that's one and I know from the TV-program of the Goethe fanatic Boudewijn Buch that Goethe could also draw and was quite a ladies man
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 27-Mar-2005 at 11:35
Originally posted by druidebaron.nl
Yes, that's one and I know from the TV-program of
the Goethe fanatic Boudewijn Buch that Goethe could also draw and was
quite a ladies man |
Boudewijn Buch himself was a Uomo Universale
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