Background
GORNFEL’D., Arkadiy was born on August 30, 1867 in Simferopol’.
GORNFEL’D., Arkadiy was born on August 30, 1867 in Simferopol’.
Graduate Law Faculty, Khar’kov University. Studied poetry under A. A. Potebni, founder of the psychological school in Russian linguistics, then in Berlin under Lazarus and Geiger.
From early 1890’s collaborated with journals Russkoye bogatstvo, Zhurnal dlya vsekh and Voskhod. Contributed to collections Voprosy teorii i psikhologii tvorchestva (Problems of Creative Theory and Psychology). Typical of his theoretical works are his interest in the author’s style and the effort to fathom his psychology and poetic thought.
Wrote articles on the theory of lit in encyclopedic.
Every religion forces people to rely on outside authority, thus depriving them to become self-sufficient.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.