{"title":"Introduction to The Power of Beauty","authors":"Theresa Farnan","doi":"10.1353/QUD.2016.0000","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"On December 10, 1974, Nobel laureate Alexandr Solzhenitsyn delivered an address on the power of beauty and the arts to change the world. Taking as his point of departure Dostoyevsky’s insight that beauty will save the world, and shaped by his own experience of the power of literature to unmask totalitarianism, Solzhenitsyn spoke on the relationship of beauty, truth, and goodness, and the distinctive nature of the power of beauty.","PeriodicalId":40384,"journal":{"name":"Quaestiones Disputatae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quaestiones Disputatae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/QUD.2016.0000","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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On December 10, 1974, Nobel laureate Alexandr Solzhenitsyn delivered an address on the power of beauty and the arts to change the world. Taking as his point of departure Dostoyevsky’s insight that beauty will save the world, and shaped by his own experience of the power of literature to unmask totalitarianism, Solzhenitsyn spoke on the relationship of beauty, truth, and goodness, and the distinctive nature of the power of beauty.