The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï/Volume 19
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Contents
1 Chapter I - Doctrine of non-resistance to evil, from the origin of Christianity, has been, and still is, professed by the minority of men
3 Chapter II - Opinions of believers and unbelievers in regard to non-resistance
30 Chapter III - Misconception of Christianity by non-believers
47 Chapter IV - Misconception of Christianity by scientists
79 Chapter V - Contradiction of our life and Christian consciousness
100 Chapter VI - Attitude of men of the present day toward war
122 Chapter VII - Significance of the military conscription
152 Chapter VIII - Certainty of the acceptance of the Christian doctrine of non-resistance to evil by violence by the men of our world
171 Chapter IX - The acceptance of the Christian life-conception delivers men from the miseries of our pagan life
194 Chapter X - Uselessness of violence for the destruction of evil—The moral advance of mankind is accomplished, not only through the knowledge of truth, but also through the establishment of public opinion
218 Chapter XI - Christian public opinion already arises in our society, and will inevitably destroy the system of violence of our life—When this will come about
242 Chapter XII - Conclusion: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"
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339 341 Chapter I - Time and labor spent on art—Lives stunted in its service—Morality sacrificed to and anger justified by art—The rehearsal of an opera described
345 Chapter II - Docs art compensate for so much evil?—What is art?—Confusion of opinions—Is it "that which produces beauty"?—The word "beauty" in Russian—Chaos in esthetics
351 Chapter III - Summary of various aesthetic theories and definitions, from Baumgarten to to-day
360 Chapter IV - Definitions of art founded on beauty—Taste not definable—A clear definition needed to enable us to recognize works of art
376 Chapter V - Definitions not founded on beauty—Tolstoi's definition—The extent and necessity of art—How people in the past have distinguished good from bad in art
383 Chapter VI - How art for pleasure has come into esteem—Religions indicate what is considered good and bad—Church Christianity—The Renaissance—Skepticism of the upper classes—They confound beauty with goodness
389 Chapter VII - An aesthetic theory framed to suit this view of life
396 Chapter VIII - Who have adopted it?—Real art needful for all men—Our art too expensive, too unintelligible, and too harmful for the masses—The theory of "the elect" in art
401 Chapter IX - Perversion of our art—It has lost its natural subject-matter—Has no flow of fresh feeling—Transmits chiefly three base emotions
406 Chapter X - Loss of comprehensibility—Decadent art—Recent French art—Have we a right to say it is bad and that what we like is good art?—The highest art has always been comprehensible to normal people—What fails to infect normal people is not art
412 Chapter XI - Counterfeits of art produced by: Borrowing; Imitating; Striking; Interesting—Qualifications needful for production of real works of art, and those sufficient for production of counterfeits
436 Chapter XII - Causes of production of counterfeits—Professionalism—Criticism—Schools of art
446 Chapter XIII - Wagner's "Nibelung's Ring" a type of counterfeit art—Its success, and the reasons thereof
455 Chapter XIV - Truths fatal to preconceived views are not readily recognized—Proportion of works of art to counterfeits—Perversion of taste and incapacity to recognize art—Examples
468 Chapter XV - The quality of art, considered apart from its subject-matter—The sign of art: Infectiousness—Incomprehensible to those whose taste is perverted—Conditions of infection: Individuality; Clearness; Sincerity
476 Chapter XVI - The quality of art, considered according to its subject-matter—The better the feeling the better the art—The cultured crowd—The religious perception of our age—The new ideals put fresh demands to art—Art unites—Religious art—Universal art—Both cooperate to one result—The new appraisement of art—Bad art—Examples of art—How to test a work claiming to be art
479 Chapter XVII - Results of absence of true art—Results of perversion of art: Labor and lives spent on what is useless and harmful—The abnormal life of the rich—Perplexity of children and plain folk—Confusion of right and wrong—Nietzsche and Redbeard—Superstition, Patriotism, and Sensuality
497 Chapter XVIII - The purpose of human life is the brotherly union of man—Art must be guided by this perception
507 Chapter XIX - The art of the future not a possession of a select minority, but a means toward perfection and unity
510 Chapter XX - The connection between science and art—The mendacious sciences; the trivial sciences—Science should deal with the great problems of human life, and serve as a basis for art
517 Appendices 528 530 537 542
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