Semyon Frank and Yakov Golosovker: On Kantian Motives in the Works of Dostoyevsky
... reflexive concepts. He made it the central theme of his book, Dostoyevsky and Kant, immersing the philosophical component of the novel The Brothers Karamazov in the context of Kant’s antinomies. The later Frank took up the subject of Dostoyevsky’s worldview in response, as it were, to the discussion of the problem of cultural crisis at Volfila (including at meetings “In Memory of Dostoyevsky”). Following Yakov Golosovker, Andrey Bely, Aron Steinberg, Semyon Lurie and others, he continued the ...
Schopenhauer and I. Kant in A. A. Fet’s philosophical and political worldview (conclusion)
The concluding part of the work focuses on the independence of A. A. Fet’s philosophical worldview strongly emphasised by the poet himself and his close friends. Although he quotes Schopenhauer and Kant, he criticised them and demonstrates an independent worldview. The author analyses the critique of Schopenhauer given in A. A. Fet’s letters....
Speech aggression as a means of preserving and promoting the Neo-pagan worldview: the case of Rodnoverie
... their function and frequency. Furthermore, the study elucidates the composition and nature of the primary goals behind the aggressive speech behaviour of Rodnoverie adherents.
Abdullina, L. R., 2016. Internet comments as a reflection of national worldview (based on the material of French and Russian languages).
Vestnik Voronezhskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya: Filologiya. Zhurnalistika
[Vestnik VSU. Series: Philology. Journalism],
1, pp. 5—6 (in Russ.).
Apresyan, V. Yu., ...
Units of the lexical-semantic group ‘Information search and receipt’ as personifying metaphors in Russian poetry
... determine the functioning of these lexical units in Russian poetry, identify the semantic classes of the objects of personification they are combined with, and establish their role in the organisation of the poetic text and connection with the poet's worldview. The research uses the Poetic Subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus as its material and employs corpus, semantic field, and structural-functional analysis methods. The results show a higher frequency of words with the meaning ‘Information ...
Czesław Miłosz’s “Theological treatise” in the context of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s religious worldview
The article investigates a religious and philosophical dialogue of Miłosz and Dostoevsky. The antinomic content of Miłosz's poem “Theological Treatise” is analyzed in the context of Dostoevsky's Christocentric worldview, as well as religious and heretical teachings of early Christianity, which aroused Milosz's interest throughout his career. In their works, Dostoevsky and Miłosz explored the theological problem of apoсatastasis and offered their interpretation ...
Daniel Everett and Cultural Linguistics
... and to examine the possible link with linguistic cultural studies. Everett’s definitions of language and culture are contrasted with those of various schools in linguistics. It should be noted that Everett does not appear to use the term linguistic worldview. Yet, due to the rich empirical evidence found and set out in his books and papers, Everett effectively summarizes the views on the subject of worldview. Everett’s standpoint does not show significant differences from those of Anna Wierzbicka,...
Russian and Latvian proverbs and sayings on sin
This article examines the semantic scope of the notions of «грех / grēks» as fundamental ones in Russian and Latvian worldviews. Russian and Latvian proverbs and sayings help identify the basic, universal ideas about sin, as well as particular, national ones. The author comes to a conclusion that the Russian mentality — unlike the Latvian one — reflects the interaction ...
The Knight of Contemporary Russian Kantiana. On the 85th Birthday of Leonard Kalinnikov
... poetic work of V. S. Solovyov, Kant’s impact on A. S. Pushkin, A. A. Fet, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. These topics are elaborated in the monographs Immanuel Kant in Russian Poetry (2008), E. T. A. Hoffmann and I. Kant (2012), The Philosophical and Poetic Worldview of A. A. Fet: the Impact of I. Kant and A. Schopenhauer (2016), Pushkin and Kant. The Poet and Philosophy (2018), The Philosophical System of Kant. Conception and Outcomes (2021). L. A. Kalinnikov’s works form an impressive and original part ...
Affection of Law: Fichte on the Place and Boundaries of Pure Ethics of the Imperative
In his popular 1806 lectures on religion Fichte considered five possible worldviews in the second of which, “the standpoint of legality”, one can readily recognise the ethics of law of the Stoical and Kantian type. Fichte stresses that in his youth he himself shared this worldview. However, he hastens to adduce a series ...
A. Schopenhauer and I. Kant in A. A. Fet’s philosophical and political worldview
This article offers an analysis of the influence of Kant’s and Schopenhauer's philosophical ideas on Fet’s worldview. The author demonstrates that the poet was not a strict follower of A. Schopenhauer, since he interpreted the German pessimist’s doctrine cum grano salis. The influence of Kant’s ideas on A. Fet was, at least, not less significant.
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Schopenhauer and I. Kant in A. Fet’s philosophical and poe¬tical worldview (continuation)
This article offers an analysis of the influence of Kant’s and Schopenhauer's philosophical ideas on Fet’s worldview. The author demonstrates that the poet was not a strict follower of A. Schopenhauer, since he interpreted the German pessimist’s doctrine cum grano salis. The influence of Kant’s ideas on A. Fet was, at least, not less significant.
1. Зеньковский ...
Phraseological potential of the somatism сердце / cœur / Herz in the Russian, French and German languages
... number of problems of the national-cultural field of phraseological units of the Russian, French and German languages, to determine the universal and national-specific features of the phraseology of these languages, to reveal the peculiarities of the worldview and worldview of Russians, French and Germans. The choice of somaticisms cердце / cœur / Herz contributes to the most accurate description of the emotive component as one of the leading in the semantic structure of the compared phraseological ...
Compounds in Fyodor Ivanov’s texts (based on «A letter…» and «A petition…» of 1666)
This article draws a connection between compounds, on the one hand, and the general meaning of two documents from the manuscript legacy of an ideologist of the mid-17th-century Russian Orthodox schism and his worldview, on the other. The study aims to consider through the prism of diachronic linguistic personology the texts authored by the dyak Fedor Ivanov. The content of the article is a product of its methodology, namely, continuous sampling, using which ...
Evolution of Andrey Bolkonsky’s axiological worldview in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
... the author’s personality. Oppositions emerging in the character’s mind (war/peace, lie/truth, earth/sky, greatness/worthlessness, glory/vanity), which are identified in the course of analysis, make it possible to track changes in the character’s worldview and its evolution along his way to harmony.
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2. Гинзбург Л. Я. О психологической ...
Genre-composition metaphor of rhizome in the novel “Primeval and other Times” by Olga Tokarchuk
... construction for her literary texts in general and the novel Primeval and
Other Times in particular. The metaphor of the rhizome is expressed in the novel not only through the image of a giant fungal network, a mycelium, but also through a distinctive worldview based on the interconnectedness of all living things and all entities (human beings, living and non-living nature). Thus, Tokarczuk’s work offers a perspective on the world that is far removed from anthropocentrism. The article also analyzes ...
Сognitive mechanisms of semantic adaptation of borrowings in Russian
... determined by the types of cognitive categorization employed. Two types of categorization are described: logical categorization and non-logical categorization. Logical categorization involves the rational structuring of phenomena within a native speaker’s worldview, while non-logical categorization reflects an emotional-evaluative perception of reality, expressing various emotions through borrowings. The research draws on several sources, including the National Corpus of the Russian Language, media publications,...
‘People in Black’: Semantization of the concepts ‘sectant’ and ‘baptist’ in the anti-religious campaign of 1958—1964
... demanded the Soviet authorities to play the role of the interpretant. They engaged in the process of assigning meanings to new concepts through mass media and fiction. Simultaneously, established concepts had to undergo reshaping to align with the new worldview of the 'Soviet citizen’. The transformation of the semantic structure of religious vocabulary, ideologically marked, reflected the shift in the fundamental values of Soviet society. This article, employing component and contextual analyses,...
Polynominativity of geographical objects in the linguocultural context
... multiplication of onomastic units and subsystems for utilitarian purposes, including cultural considerations. 5) linguocognitive factors: they lead to the emergence of ‘double’ names that mirror individual or collective features of a particular worldview model. It is evident that these factors interact dynamically within specific historical, social, and cultural contexts. The study of the intricate interplay between these elements holds promise, and advancements in onomastic ethnolinguistics,...
Fyodor Dostoevsky vs Karl Marx: Personal Freedom in Existential and Social Dimensions
... Legenda o Velikom inkvizitore F. M. Dostoevskogo [Collected Works. The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoyevsky]. Moscow, pp. 7—156 (in Russ.).
Scanlan, J. P., 2002. Dostoevsky the Thinker. New York.
Stepun, F. A., 1962. Dostoevsky's worldview. “Demons” and the Bolshevik Revolution. In: F. A. Stepun, ed. Vstrechi [Meetings]. Munich, pp. 11—57 (in Russ.).
Tihanov, G., 2010. Continuities in the Soviet period. In: A History of Russian Thought. Cambridge, pp. 311—339,
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Semantic potential of the lexeme twilight in Russian poetry
... 'twilight' in Russian poetry. These contexts demonstrate the extensive range of figurative applications and symbolic nuances associated with the term.
Bely, A., 1994. The magic of words. In: A. Bely, ed. Simvolizm kak miroponimanie [Symbolism as a worldview]. Moscow, pp. 131—142 (in Russ.).
Dal, V. I., 1955. Tolkovyi slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo yazyka [Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language]. Vol. 4. Moscow (in Russ.).
Garin, I. I., 1994. Proroki i poety [Prophets and ...
The Mobius strip of the pragmasemantics of sense: from culture through subjectivity to nothingness and back
... self-description. Thus, it engenders a "strange loop" (as described by Hofstadter), in which the inner becomes entwined with the outer, and the social intertwines with the individual. In this way, the possessor of self-consciousness gains a broader worldview extending beyond physical existence. This expanded perspective not only facilitates responses to situationality but also enhances the potential to proactively pre-adapt to one's environment. Selfhood is a flexible entity, receptive to new content,...
Ironic assessment in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s novel The Golovlyovs
... historical period of the domination of the landlord class. Ironic evaluation in Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel is an important component of the Saltykov-Shchedrin's ideostyle and reveals the specificity of his narration and the peculiarities of the writer's worldview.
Aikhenval'd, Yu. I., 1994. Siluety russkikh pisatelei [Silhouettes of Russian writers]. Moscow (in Russ.).
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The journal “1812”and the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812
... academics and popularizers initiated the foundation of the Museum of 1812 and the Borodino panorama, painted by F. A. Roubaud for the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812. On the one hand, publications in the journal reflected the prevailing worldview and the lexis used at that time. On the other hand, articles of the journal disseminated a set of values amongst the readership, having an equal or lower educational, cultural and social status. The knowledge of the language of the journal ...
The media image of San Escobar in the space of fictional worlds: a socio-semiotic perspective
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worldviews/wp/2017/01/11/san-escobar-how-polands-foreign-minister-helped-crea te-a-fake-country/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.60f54f8bd5e8 [Accessed 22 June 2018].
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Between faith and disbelief: the theme of life and death in Yu. N. Ivanov’s novel Dances in the Crematory: Ten Episodes from the Life of Königsberg
... ideational-thematic level, the principle of fragmentarity is manifested in the novel in the form of a series of antithesis themes and binary oppositions (peace/war, life/death, god/evil, love/hate, faith/disbelief, God/devil), which reveal the author’s worldview and integrate semantically different dimensions of the novel — subjective, psychological, moral, philosophical, and fictional ones. These oppositions emphasise the novel’s leitmotif (the metaphor of the road as a person’s life journey) ...
Discursive practices of the Russian diaspora in Estonia: language contacts
... acquisition, etc.), evaluations (objects of evaluation, types of evaluation) and self-identification (ethnic, denominational, cultural, socio-economic). The above is not only characteristic of the diasporic speech. These components also describe the worldview of language users belonging to the diaspora and their naïve linguistic conceptualisation of reality. Within the typical diasporic discourse, I distinguish a metalinguistic discourse that rests on discursive practices stemming from language ...
A. G. Baumgarten’s aesthetic-semiotic concept
... Philosophy and Theology]. 1(1/2), pp. 141—156 (in Russ.).
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Deely, J., 2014. Literary semiotics and the doctrine of signs. Kritika I semiotika [Criticism and Semiotics], 1, pp. 18—29 ...
The Concept of Soul: A Comparative Study of the Russian and the Armenian Pictures of the World
..., there are words containing the ‘soul’ (հոգի) component that do not have equivalents in the Russian linguistic picture of the world. The analysis allows the author to take a glimpse into the inner world of a native speaker. In its turn, the worldview of an individual helps to trace the century-long development of a national linguistic picture of the world.
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Energy and the Ways of its Conceptualisation in Cognition: an Attempt at an Epistemological Analysis
... Panov, eds. Filosofskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar' [Philosophical encyclopedic dictionary]. Moscow. p. 17.
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On the problem of cultural reference of proverbs (the Russian proverbs with images of clothing)
... realm of ideas about the world. These ideas are interpreted within different fields of human spiritual life, for instance, in proverbs. Proverbs featuring clothing items are a major source for understanding tastes, preferences, lifestyles, customs, and worldview of a nation. Images of garments in proverbs are a particular form of expressing the key ideas of a culture. Moreover, such images serve as condensers of the established etiquette, ethical, social, and other judgements. A cultural and linguistic ...
Events as a semantic framework for the construction of reality: the prospects of a transition to a dynamic ontology
Events are the main element in the formation and presentation of a worldview across all the research disciplines in the humanities and other sciences. Cognising and understanding reality requires the consideration and construction of data, descriptions, correlations, and narratives, to all of which concrete events are ...
The functioning of phraseological units with zoonym components in the Russian and Lithuanian languages
... considers the semantics of Russian and Lithuanian zoonym phraseological units and performs their semantic and structural systematisation. The author identifies the cultural linguistic features of fixed expressions containing a zoonym component in the worldview of native speakers.
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Problems of Studying Russian Hagiography
... the category of hagiographic topoi, which is linked to the concept of literary etiquette. This concept is examined from a polemic standpoint since it does not fully conform to the genesis and function of hagiographic topoi. It is concluded that the worldview and mindset of the hagiographer play a crucial role in the creation of a vita belonging to a particular historical period and church traditions. The author addresses the problem of studying Russian hagiographic literature of the modern and contemporary ...
Criminal songs: The hero and the plot
... characters and different situations are found in folklore and plots are borrowed from other fields of the folk or popular song. Having borrowed ‘external’ material, the criminal song develops its own language meant to model and interpret its special worldview.
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2. Астафьев В. П. Собрание соч. : в 6 т. Т. 3 : Последний поклон....
The features of the Last Judgement theme in Galich icons at the threshold of the Modern Age
... in terms of composition and ideas — works reflecting the prevalent views of the Galich Rusyns of the time. The proliferation of the Last Judgement compositions in the Eastern Slavic area is linked to the eschatological expectations that shaped the worldview prevalent in Russian lands since the late 16th century.
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Immanuel Kant in the Conversations and Reflections of Nikolay Strakhov
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Vivos Voco. Post-war Correspondence between Sergey Hessen and Ivan Lapshin: Year 1946
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Kant and “Seasickness” of Modernity
... does the Kantian programme offer for modernity’s “gnostic dizziness?” I maintain that Kant’s critical turn is still an effective strategy by means of which to compensate for the sudden stresses and “gnostic impulses” provoked by the modern worldview revolution, bringing back an “orientation in thinking” which reorients the world process and individual activity. The imperative to always see and respect humanity in a particular individual warns against the “category mistake” committed ...
Review of Recent Russian Studies of Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy
... Filosofii, 3, pp. 165-175. (In Rus.)
Dmitrieva, N., 2010. Mensch und Geschichte. Zur “anthropologischen Wende” im russischen Neukantianismus. Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, 12(2), pp. 82-103.
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Dmitrieva, N. A., 2013b. The Concept of A Priori in German and Russian Neo-Kantianism. In: A.N. Krouglov, ed. 2013. Mnogoobrazie apriori [Diversity ...
Lyubov Axelrod on Kant: Reflections on Marxist Discussions of the 1920s and 1930s in the USSR
... their development. They focus on the work of a follower of Georgy Plekhanov, Lyubov Axelrod, who, in developing the concept of historical materialism, turned to Kant. Axelrod’s published works (from early articles and a dissertation on Tolstoy’s worldview, to her mature works on the history of materialism and philosophical-sociological texts on literary classics) and her epistolary legacy (most notably her correspondence with Plekhanov) show that, for her, rethinking the ideas of Kant was a reference ...
The Ethics of the Categorical Imperative. Lossky under the Influence of Kant
... München: Alber.
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Lossky, N. O., 1995. Sensual, Intellectual, and Mystical ...
Kantian Ethical Humanism in Late Imperial Russia
... in It. Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia [Journal of the Ministry of Public Education], 1, pp. 28-68. (In Russ.)
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Georges Gurvitch and Sergey Hessen on the Possibility of Forming Social Unity
... 257-293; 23, pp. 313-342; 27, pp. 382-430; 28, pp. 299-345; 29, pp. 308-342; 30, pp. 380-409; 31, pp. 328-358. (In Rus.)
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Donelaitis and Kant: to the issue of the hermeneutic of survival in the era of the “mystery of iniquity”
... pedagogy, which deserves serious attention. Despite his deeply pietistic education, Donelaitis expressed keen interest in physicotheology and alternatives to pietism as early as his university years. Donelaitis and Kant never met; they had different worldviews. However, they also had something in common relating to the problem of time. They shared the idea that time is not only a form of material existence connected to space but, primarily, a hermeneutic category. It means that, in its very essence,...
Studies into the history of Russian Neo-Kantianism in Poland
... Aleksandra I. Wwiedienskiego [Faith according to Alexander I. Vvedensky] // Logos i Ethos [Logos and Ethos]. № 2, p. 235—253.
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‘Back to Kant’ or ‘Back to Leibnitz’? A critical view from the history of Russian metaphysical personalism
... [Vladimir Solovyov and Russian Neo-Leibnizianism], Voprosy filosofii [Problems of philosophy], no2, p. 90—96.
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I. Kant in the development of N. O. Lossky’s philosophical views: The case of a translation
... transcendental philosophy. It is shown that the experience of translating CPR and the critical analysis of Kant’s epistemology helped Lossky to overcome the complications that emerged in the history of philosophy and develop his own complete and organic worldview. Moreover, there arose an objective need for a new CPR translation, since some intellectuals were not satisfied with that made by N. M. Sokolov. The article contains excerpts from reviews of Sokolov’s and Lossky’s translations of CPR by ...
Category of space in the system of intertextual connections Miciński’s essay Portrait of Kant
... famous maxim from the conclusion of the Critique of Practical Reason associates the contemplation of the starry sky and the awareness of the moral law with the pessimistic and catastrophic tone of fear and dread. Iwaszkiewicz’s modification of Kant’s worldview is indirectly connected to the reception of the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky. The principle of simultaneity, which underpins the modeling of space in Miсiński’s essay, resonates with the main ideas in Ya. E. Golosovker’s ...
Book-centric picture of the world in O. Tokarchuk’s novels “The Journey of the Book-People” and “The Books of Jacob”
... societies of the 17th-18th centuries becomes significant. The genre specificity of the two texts, features of their narrative structure, and character systems are considered. It is asserted that the two analyzed books share a logocentric and book-centric worldview, the meaning of which lies in the belief in the ability of humans to influence reality through words and books. In connection with the dialectic of word and deed, Faustian motifs of both texts are revealed. In "The Journey of the People ...