The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art?
This volume pairs two of Leo Tolstoy's late polemical works. The Kingdom of God Is Within You, published in 1894 and translated by Aline Delano, sets out his doctrine of nonresistance to evil, drawn from the Sermon on the Mount, and attacks the state, conscription and the churches that bless war; it later influenced Gandhi. What Is Art?, from 1898, rejects the idea of art as the pursuit of beauty and defines it instead as the transmission of feeling from one person to others, judging much of the celebrated art of his time, including his own novels, as false and exclusive. Both are forceful, provocative and personal. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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