leo tolstoy was a russianrussian
russian is a slavic language.
writer. he wrote novels and a book called What is artart
all art is quite useless. – wilde
the greeks spoke of art as mimesis, mimicking nature. The German idealists (kant and friedrich schiller) saw art as a form of play.
art is...? he did not accept shakespeareshakespeare
shakespeare was a poet and a playwright of both Comedy and tragedy. He wrote hamlet and the tempest. he was inspired by ovid, seneca, plutarch, and montaigne.
or dantedante
dante was an italian poet from florence who wrote the poem divina commedia. he also wrote la vita nuova and de vulgari eloquentia and monarchia.
. he dismisses nietzschenietzsche
friedrich wilhelm nietzsche (1844-1900) was a philosopher from germany. in 1869, at the age of 24, he became a professor. his first book was The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, about greek tra... and wildewilde
Oscar Wilde was a poet, playwright, and novelist, trained in the classics.
. he liked dostoevskydostoevsky
fyodor dostoevsky was a russian writer. he was engaged with existentialism and christian.
. he read from the biblebible
the bible is the religious book of christian written in hebrew and koine greek.
and rousseaurousseau
jean-jacques rousseau was an enlightenment writer.
and goethegoethe
goethe was a writer of plays and poems in german. He was influenced by shakespeare.
and odysseyodyssey
the odyssey is a greek epic poem by homer.
Reading
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey
and iliadiliad
the iliad is a greek epic poem by homer. it predates the odyssey. it takes place over the course of a few months or so.
toward the end of the trojan war, agammemnon enrages achille... and platoplato
plato was a philosopher from athens, a disciple of socrates.
Following Sadler's advice.
deleuze
As mentioned in deleuze's philosophical lineage, Deleuze says in difference and repetiti... and epictetusepictetus
epictetus was a stoic.
If a philosopher's words fail to produce [the realization that the listener is in a bad way], they're lifeless and the speaker's a corpse too. (Discourses 3.23.8)
C..., etc.