IMPLICIT/INTERNAL PHILOSOPHY OF F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S WORKS AND IT’S CORRELATION WITH THE LIFE ATTITUDE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE XXI CENTURY
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Information about authors: Kasatkina Tatyana Aleksandrovna, Dr of Philological Sciences, Department Chair of Theory of Literature, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russian Federation). E-mail: t-kasatkina@yandex.ru
Annotation: The internal philosophy of Dostoevsky’s works is needed by contemporary young people because the purpose of Dostoevsky himself in his works was to provide the reader with new behavioral patterns which can be used for elevating him to another level of thinking, of being and of interacting with the world. These new patterns are extremely demanded by the young people in the current situation of swiftly changing image of the world and in the current situation of swiftly changing man’s feeling of his place and signifi cance in the world. The questions at the same time central for works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and most important for self-determination of the young people are: 1. What are and how to build man’s relationships with the world? Does a man depend on the world or does the world depend on a man? 2. Are evident man’s insignifi cance and powerlessness in the relationship of the world and a man – or omnipotence of a “little” man? 3. How is achieved omnipotence? How can I change the world? 4. What does it mean to “change the world, changing ourselves”? 5. Why sacrifi ce and complete commitment of youself (i.e., surpassing yourself) is not infringement, but is the rise and implementation of my being? How does man’s commitment become a way to connect to another and to the world and possibility to infl uence the other and the world? 6. How to give everything when you have nothing? Dostoevsky answers those questions by all his works – but especially in the “Diary of the Writer,” written in 1876–1877. But since the area where is possible to answer these questions has much more “dimension” then that “reality” which is familiar to us, those texts in the “Diary of the Writer,” where are the answers, marked with the word “fantastic” or the same genre’s defi nition.
Keywords: philosophy in literary fi ction, needs of readers, fantastic, author’s concept.
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Information about authors: Kasatkina Tatyana Aleksandrovna, Dr of Philological Sciences, Department Chair of Theory of Literature, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russian Federation). E-mail: t-kasatkina@yandex.ru
Annotation: The internal philosophy of Dostoevsky’s works is needed by contemporary young people because the purpose of Dostoevsky himself in his works was to provide the reader with new behavioral patterns which can be used for elevating him to another level of thinking, of being and of interacting with the world. These new patterns are extremely demanded by the young people in the current situation of swiftly changing image of the world and in the current situation of swiftly changing man’s feeling of his place and signifi cance in the world. The questions at the same time central for works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and most important for self-determination of the young people are: 1. What are and how to build man’s relationships with the world? Does a man depend on the world or does the world depend on a man? 2. Are evident man’s insignifi cance and powerlessness in the relationship of the world and a man – or omnipotence of a “little” man? 3. How is achieved omnipotence? How can I change the world? 4. What does it mean to “change the world, changing ourselves”? 5. Why sacrifi ce and complete commitment of youself (i.e., surpassing yourself) is not infringement, but is the rise and implementation of my being? How does man’s commitment become a way to connect to another and to the world and possibility to infl uence the other and the world? 6. How to give everything when you have nothing? Dostoevsky answers those questions by all his works – but especially in the “Diary of the Writer,” written in 1876–1877. But since the area where is possible to answer these questions has much more “dimension” then that “reality” which is familiar to us, those texts in the “Diary of the Writer,” where are the answers, marked with the word “fantastic” or the same genre’s defi nition.
Keywords: philosophy in literary fi ction, needs of readers, fantastic, author’s concept.
