Dostoevsky and Arendt on the Crisis of Tradition
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angličtina
Original language name
Dostoevsky and Arendt on the Crisis of Tradition
Original language description
In this paper, I shall pursue two goals. Firstly, I will demonstrate that H. Arendt's early analysis of the origins of totalitarianism was anticipated in many ways by F. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, specifically Dostoevsky's description of Raskolnikov, who is placed in a marginal position of social isolation as well as deprived of traditional orientation. Raskolnikov's crime follows from an attempt to compensate for this lack of traditional orientation, with speculative rational constructions that provide alternative values and orientation. Arendt's analysis of the origins of totalitarianism, in similar vein to Dostoevsky, is concerned with individuals' isolation from the common sense of a given political community, a common sense that provides orientation and values for every member. Being isolated from common sense (and, consequently, from others) and thus not able to disclose the common world, people are forced to substitute intersubjective disclosure of truth with what she describes as =logicality' of thought, a mere logical consistency, which eventually leads to justifying such phenomena as genocide. Secondly, I shall demonstrate how Arendt's early thought goes beyond Dostoevsky's diagnosis. While Dostoevsky had attained a conservative standpoint stressing the role of a pre-given tradition and religion, Arendt investigates the condition of possibility of the common sense demonstrating that communication among individuals who are capable of accepting other's point of view (-thinking from other fellow's point of view‖) can serve to rebuild common sense
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Meta [online]
ISSN
2067-3655
e-ISSN
2067-3655
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
RO - ROMANIA
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
551-580
UT code for WoS article
000919599600012
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