Volume 50 (1995), 8

The paper aims at the account of the problem of suicidal tendencies in modem times, based on the dicussion of F. M. Dostoevsky’s and T. G. Masaryk's works. In its first part the author gives a general account of suicide, as well as its various interpretations. In part II and III the problem of suicide in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky is examined. Part IV gives an… Read more

The history of the interpretation of Dostoevsky’s „The Double“ embodies various (psycho) pathological, sociological, ethical and culturological conceptions and hypotheses. The author's concern is to „rehabilitate“ doubleness as a possible transition from one ontological level to another. A certain condition gives rise to a crisis of the actuality, i. e. the old… Read more

On the author’s view Raskolnikov gives several Dostoevsky’s own selfinterpretations of the „idea“ of his crime, which were later on taken over by variou interpreters of Dostoevsky’s novel The crime and the punishment. No comparative analysis was given concerning Stirner’s resp. Raskolnikov’s ideas. Thus the genesis of Raskolnikov’s „idea“ remains… Read more