For respect for human dignity implies the recognition of my fellow-men or our fellownations as subjects, as builders of worlds or cobuilders of a common world. 1
described as apparitions-'heavenly vision[s]… that rise […] above human beings and [are] carried beyond their intentions and the world of things' (Adorno, 2004, p. 107). From his first viewing of Il gattopardo in the 1970s until his lecture in 2004 titled 'That Crazy Visconti,' Düttmann has been mesmerized by the eccentric Italian director. Taking an obvious lead from Henry Bacon's Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay (1998) which argued that Visconti's use of melodramatic realism 'evoked reality in its flesh and blood,' Düttmann has produced a penetrating
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