Nastasya’s Revolt: Metaphysical Significance of Contrariness in Dostoevsky

This article explores the concept of perversity (contrariness) in Dostoevsky, concluding that it should be understood as a religious notion as opposed to merely ethical. In fact, perversity in Dostoevsky facilitates the conflict between the ethical and the religious. At its most intense contrariness...

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Autor principal:	Denis A. Zhernokleyev
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Lenguaje:	EN RU
Publicado:	Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2019
Materias:	dostoevsky the idiot nastasya filippovna myshkin lebedev rousseau romanticism sentimentalism revolt contrariness perversity apophasis apocalypticism negation death resurrection holbein christ Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7e159dca4eb94a49857dc8df0982a5b42021-11-24T10:25:58ZNastasya’s Revolt: Metaphysical Significance of Contrariness in Dostoevsky10.22455/2619-0311-2019-1-104-1152619-03112712-8512https://doaj.org/article/7e159dca4eb94a49857dc8df0982a5b42019-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dostmirkult.ru/images/DOST_2019-1-int-1-106-117.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2619-0311https://doaj.org/toc/2712-8512This article explores the concept of perversity (contrariness) in Dostoevsky, concluding that it should be understood as a religious notion as opposed to merely ethical. In fact, perversity in Dostoevsky facilitates the conflict between the ethical and the religious. At its most intense contrariness in his novels is always apocalyptic — which is to say utterly destructive. Nastasya’s tragic embrace of death in The Idiot is the prime example in this paper of contrariness refusing to negotiate any “ethical” solutions and deliberately pushing moral discourse into the nihilistic register. However, nihilism in Dostoevsky does not exist for its own sake. Its purpose is to create a critical boundary between the ethical and the religious, where for the religious metaphysic to become manifest, the ethical metaphysic has to be actively and continuously renounced.Denis A. ZhernokleyevRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticledostoevskythe idiotnastasya filippovnamyshkinlebedevrousseauromanticismsentimentalismrevoltcontrarinessperversityapophasisapocalypticismnegationdeathresurrectionholbeinchristSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, Iss 1, Pp 104-115 (2019)
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description	This article explores the concept of perversity (contrariness) in Dostoevsky, concluding that it should be understood as a religious notion as opposed to merely ethical. In fact, perversity in Dostoevsky facilitates the conflict between the ethical and the religious. At its most intense contrariness in his novels is always apocalyptic — which is to say utterly destructive. Nastasya’s tragic embrace of death in The Idiot is the prime example in this paper of contrariness refusing to negotiate any “ethical” solutions and deliberately pushing moral discourse into the nihilistic register. However, nihilism in Dostoevsky does not exist for its own sake. Its purpose is to create a critical boundary between the ethical and the religious, where for the religious metaphysic to become manifest, the ethical metaphysic has to be actively and continuously renounced.
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Nastasya’s Revolt: Metaphysical Significance of Contrariness in Dostoevsky

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