Tolstoy’s Theory of Art as an Anthropological Proposal
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In this text, I briefly present Tolstoy's theory of art and argue that many of the criticisms it receives derive from an erroneous interpretation of his concept of “feeling” as a subjective state, which does not seem to be the meaning that Tolstoy intends for this term. Then I propose a reading of his artistic moralism from an anthropology that opposes some of the processes of modernity, especially the aesthetic reduction of the arts and their specific connection with pleasure.
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