A Philosopher’s Fairy Tale. Dostoevskij and Kierkegaard on Imaginary Worlds
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2024.2317375" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2024.2317375</a>
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2024.2317375" target="_blank" >10.1080/00806765.2024.2317375</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Philosopher’s Fairy Tale. Dostoevskij and Kierkegaard on Imaginary Worlds
Original language description
The faculty of imagination plays an important but somewhat ambivalent role in the works of Fëdor Dostoevskij and Søren Kierkegaard. On the one hand, both Kierkegaard and Dostoevskij believe that it can facilitate the becoming of ethical and religious subjectivity, but they are also aware that an overly active imagination can lead to escapism which may in turn hinder ethical and religious self-development. This paper focuses specifically on the negative side of imagination, examining the stories of Frater Taciturnus from Kierkegaard’s Stages on Life’s Way and General Ivolgin from Dostoevskij’s The Idiot, both of whom construct highly elaborate personal imaginary worlds which, as this paper argues, serve as a means of escapism. The paper outlines the structure of these imaginary worlds and examines how they serve as a means of avoiding personal and moral responsibility.
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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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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scando-Slavica
ISSN
0080-6765
e-ISSN
1600-082X
Volume of the periodical
70
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SE - SWEDEN
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
110-126
UT code for WoS article
001244664100006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85195639603