title: Tragic Humanism and the Philosophy of Crisis
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Nezník, Peter
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Artamoshkina, Ludmila
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-03-01T16:09:32Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-03-01T16:09:32Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Nezník P., Artamoshkina L. F. M. Dostoevsky and T. G. Masaryk. Tragic Humanism and the Philosophy of Crisis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 4, pp. 632–644. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.403 (In Russian)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.403
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45006
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article presents a comparative analysis of the views by Dostoevsky and Masaryk on the
  nature of humanism in times of crisis. The focus of the author‘s attention is aimed, firstly, at
  the attitude of both thinkers to the “last” questions of human life, which for the Russian writer
  and for the Czech philosopher were directly related to the problem of suicide. Dostoevsky,
  whose novels contain a whole gallery of the types of suicides, considers that social disease
  in the context of atheistic logic that gave rise to the “nihilistic demonism”. Masaryk removed
  the problem of suicide from the field of psychopathology, analyzing its philosophical and historical
  meaning and social consequences. The triumph of atheism and nihilism appears to
  both thinkers as a harbinger of the coming revolutionary upheavals, a pagan uprising of the
  masses. Secondly, the article demonstrates how, in the situation of the crisis of Christianity,
  which became the painful axis of the entire European civilization, the content of humanism
  is updated in accordance with the challenges of the time. Anticipating the emergence of a
  “new element” in the world history, Dostoevsky outlined the contours of the solution of the
  “Russian” and “Slavic” issues. He remained a supporter of the mystical unity of the national
  principle and religiosity and affirmed the redemptive power of Christian humanism. Masaryk
  consistently criticized the relics of mythological consciousness from the standpoint of the
  classical principle of rationality and humanism, which he understood as a supranational phenomenon
  — a non-violent form of life, achieved not extensively, but intensively through the
  active humanization of oneself. In a dialogue with Dostoevsky, the Czech thinker overcame
  the tragic experience of the philosophical and historical crisis, offering a position of “concreticism
  and pluralism”, which allows one to perceive reality in its entirety and cultivate love for
  an individual person.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was carried out within the framework of the VEGA project no. 1/0257/20 “The concept
  of female character in the medieval exegetic literature” / “Koncept ženy hrdinky v stredovekej exegetickej
  literatúre” supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and
  Sports of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
  The research was carried out at the expense of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation no. 22-18-
  00214 at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, https://rscf.ru/project/22-18-00214/.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dostoevsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Masaryk
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philosophy of crisis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tragic humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: suicide
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: uprising of the masses
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavic question
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Tragic Humanism and the Philosophy of Crisis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 03.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/45006/1/03.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 682,18 kB