Art As Escape : In The Spotlight
February 5, 2010 by Lisa Dib
Filed under Comedy, In The Spotlight, WOF Exclusives
Arthur Schopenhauer, philosophy’s most notable pessimist, once blackly said: “There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over”. The notion that life, for all its swings and roundabouts, is filled with suffering and tribulations that we must endure until the sweet release of death, is a common but unpopular theory.
