Abstract

The article discusses the aesthetic dimension of Reiner Schürmann’s thoughts on tragic differing, which he connected to the birth of light and colors in abstract painting. It raises the question of tragic blindness and visibility, the play of light and darkness, and moreover the sacrifice of the beautiful in present times. Focusing specifically on the few texts written by Schürmann on Louis Comtois’s abstract painting and on his readings of tragic differing in the poem by Parmenides, the article presents a meditation on the right to beauty in dark times.