The artist as sacrificial in Schopenhauer's philosophy

This thesis examines a potential tension between Schopenhauer’s portrayal of art as a palliative measure undertaken in response to a fundamentally and necessarily painful existence, and the implicit image he sketches of the artist as suffering in order to precipitate this palliative measure. I begin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leiby, Rebeccah
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/17697