Discussion Question
#1: In a famous aphoristic remark, Marx writes: “The traditions of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” What is that at the service of describing or explaining? Discussion Question
#2: So what is the screaming all about? Has Ivan Ilyich realized that he ought to have lived otherwise? How ought he have lived, then? Did he marry poorly, for instance? Or choose the wrong career? Or what? Discussion Question
#3: What does it mean for the existentialist to personalize time? And to personalize space? Aren’t space and time supposed to be objectively measurable, or in other words, the opposite of personal?
