This thinker distinguished between authors who write for the subject's sake and authors who write for writing's sake in an essay from his The Art of Literature.
This thinker analogized poetry to chemistry, saying that the poet's task was to precipitate perceptions through word sequences. This thinker distinguished between authors who write for the subject's sake and authors who write for writing's sake in an essay from his The Art of Literature. This thinker ranked paintings of still lives below genre and historical painting since they offer more pure aesthetic pleasure and less objectification of the essence of life. This thinker's view of aesthetics was centered around a (*) hierarchy of the arts which placed music at the top, since he believed it to be a direct articulation of his concept of the inner nature of our being. That nature was, for this thinker, a form of meaningless, endless striving, a view influenced by his reading of the Upanishads. For 10 points, name this author of The World as Will and Representation.
This thinker analogized poetry to chemistry, saying that the poet's task was to precipitate perceptions through word sequences.
Arthur Schopenhauer