Pantheon

$$ \text{Shakespeare}\ (E, x) \rightarrow \text{Marx + Wilde}\ E(t\mid x) + \epsilon \rightarrow \text{Dostoevsky}\ \frac{dE_x}{dt} \rightarrow \text{Nietzsche}\ \frac{dE_{\bar{x}}}{dt} \pm z\sqrt{\frac{d^2t}{dt^2}} \rightarrow \text{Joyce}\ \int E_x dt + \epsilon_x t + C_x $$

Marx's fault was to claim that all history was a tale of class struggles (between-class). Shakespeare & Wilde provide ample material about another tale (within-class).

Wilde was embedded in fin de siècle England, the tired loins of a Victorian morality. He was firmly embedded within society as a participant-observer "watching the English."

Joyce integrates the perspectivism of the bard, the class struggles of Marx (Catholic & Irish vs Protestant & English) & Wilde (Stephen Dedalus vs His Irish & Catholic identity). Dedalus was intolerant of local maxima. He preferred engaging with Hamlet.

Dostoevsky at his pinnacle offered Alyosha as an example of a person with a powerful a priori (soul), Dimitri as one empirical embodiment of hedonism (body), and Ivan as an intellect failing to integrate the deluge it admitted into discourse without any governor (mind).

Nietzsche, then, is what Shakespeare might have looked like were he a preacher.