Philosophical research by Henry Pickford offers the reader a fascinating and puzzling immersion into 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 emotion and art, which allows us to place Tolstoy's ideas in the context of European philosophical and aesthetic thought.

"To follow the thoughts of a great man is the most

interesting science" - rarely is this quote so appropriate as in relation to the study offered to the reader. Henry Pickford, relying on the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, consistently reconstructs Leo Tolstoy's perception of Arthur Schopenhauer's ideas, addressed to the aesthetics of expressiveness. Wittgenstein's critical assessment of Tolstoy's ideas not only confirms their viability, but also integrates them into the context of modern debates regarding the theory of emotions, neuroscience, ethics and aesthetics.