By Jeff Love
"The such a lot authoritative, targeted and nuanced research thus far of the vexed query of the novel's holism, or the relation among its ancient "essays" and the fictitious textual content. Love analyzes the advanced philosophical provenance of Tolstoy's principles with utmost care and readability and indicates their simultaneous dedication to either skepticism and confirmation, the finite and the countless. Love additionally demonstrates convincingly how Tolstoy's rules tell the novel's narrative constitution, significant scenes and existence trajectories of the most characters. Love's booklet is a superb corrective to the severe oversimplifications that experience lengthy surrounded struggle and Peace and is a huge contribution to Tolstoy scholarship in general." Vladimir E. Alexandrov B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale collage "Hedgehog as opposed to Fox, Tolstoy the unifier as opposed to Tolstoy the skeptic, mind as opposed to senses, philosopher as opposed to artist: as Tolstoy himself knew good, to dislodge canonized binaries on any subject usually calls for lengthy, reasoned narrative argument. we now have simply any such fine-grained, sustained philosophical argument right here. Jeffrey Love takes on these ordinary binaries and demonstrates that Tolstoyan fact is dynamic, built-in, durative-and that the 2 nice classes approximately human cognizance awarded in conflict and Peace, cognitive humility and finitude, are in truth exhilarating virtues, no longer human disasters or unbridgeable contradictions. A tour-de-force." Caryl Emerson Princeton collage "Intense, analytical, philosophical, G. Jeffrey Love's "The Overcoming of historical past in warfare and Peace," like Isaiah Berlin's research "The Hedgehog and the Fox," deals lucrative insights into the tricky yet primary historical-philosophical issues of struggle and Peace-issues natural to an figuring out of Tolstoy's epic paintings. here's a massive booklet on Tolstoy." Robert Louis Jackson B.E. Bensinger Professor (Emeritus) Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale collage
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This order is matched on a different scale by the progression from Books II to IV. Generally speaking, Book II is governed by social and Book III by military narrative; Book IV features an ingenious synthesis of both. Hence, the triadic structure of Book I is reflected in the relation of Books II, III and IV, while this second triad differs from the first in that it introduces the historical essays thereby adding a new reflexivity to the narrative. The First and Second Epilogues follow this division between representation (First Epilogue) and reflection (Second Epilogue).
The fragility of this transmission is a major proof that no one man can shape a battle as his will may direct. ” When Bagration entrusts Zherkov with the task of transmitting orders to retreat to a general commanding the left flank, Zherkov, who “could not go where it was dangerous,” fails to deliver the order because he deliberately seeks out the general and his staff “where they could not possi- Skepticism 27 bly be” (I/2/XIX). Here Zherkov’s cowardice disrupts the chain of command. Such disruptions need happen only some of the time to undermine the notion that complete command is possible.
The central assumption of this argument is that theory can only be an invention because experience does not and cannot have any intrinsic structure, for it is the purest play of chance or chaos. There really is no pre-theoretical experience to which theory may respond. Therefore, theory is but an attempt to impose an ever arbitrary order on primordial chaos; we know only what we make, since we do not passively experience the world as given to us, but rather produce our experience of it. In this case, the will becomes paramount; knowledge does not direct the will, does not provide a reliable guide for action, rather the will produces knowledge as the pawn of conscious or unconscious desires—in other words, reason is subordinate to desire, it does not command but obeys.
