Thinker as Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: art, emotions and expression

The philosophical study of G. Pickford offers the reader a fascinating and puzzling immersion in the world of philosophical and aesthetic ideas of Leo Tolstoy through the prism of their perception by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The book examines a number of theories of emotions and art, which allows you to place Tolstoy’s ideas in the context of European philosophical and aesthetic thought.
"Follow the thoughts of a great man is the most entertaining science" - rarely when this quote is as appropriate as in relation to the study proposed by the reader. Henry Pickford, relying on the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, sequentially reconstructs Lev Tolstoy"s perception by Arthur Schopenhauer, facing the aesthetics of expressiveness. The critical assessment by Wittgenstein of Tolstoy’s ideas not only confirms their vitality, but embeds into the context of modern disputes regarding the theory of emotions, neuronauk, ethics and aesthetics