LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERCEPTION OF PAUL VALERY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the semantic aspects of revealing the genius of the creator. The author turns to the version of the interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s activity, which was proposed by the outstanding French poet and art critic Paul Valery. This version is not a biographical description of the life of an Italian artist and intellectual, but presents a detailed picture of intellectual life, a generalization of the methods assumed by any discovery, both artistic and natural. The main themes of Valery’s essay are the sources of creativity that give rise to his method and system. For Valery, the method or system of Leonardo da Vinci that he demonstrated are based on the foundations of the criticism and the attitude to the world of natural attitude by Husserl. It is important for Valery to show the practice of thinking or the intellectual mechanism that presents Leonardo as a universal genius.