Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art

Author:   Henry W. Pickford ,  Olga Barash
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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Pages:   306
Publication Date:   02 November 2021
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Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art


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In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida. Pickford arrives at his theory by drawing on the writings of Wittgenstein to develop and modify the insights of Tolstoy's philosophy of art. Pickford shows how Tolstoy's encounter with Schopenhauer's thought on the one hand provided support for his ethical views but on the other hand presented a problem, exemplified in the case of music, for his aesthetic theory, a problem that Tolstoy did not successfully resolve. Wittgenstein's critical appreciation of Tolstoy's thinking, however, not only recovers its viability but also constructs a formidable position within contemporary debates concerning theories of emotion, ethics, and aesthetic expression

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Author:   Henry W. Pickford ,  Olga Barash
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
ISBN:  

9781644696163


ISBN 10:   1644696169
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   02 November 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Henry W. Pickford is associate professor at Duke University. He is the author of The Sense of Semblance: Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art, co-author of In Defense of Intuitions: A New Rationalist Manifesto, and the editor and translator of Theodor W. Adorno's Critical Models and Lev Loseff's Selected Early Poems.

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