LITERÁRNE DIELO LEONIDA ANDREJEVA V KOTEXTE NEMECKEJ VOLUNTARISTICKEJ FILOZOFIE

• Authors: Dúbravská Natália

Title variants

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Literary work of Leonid Andreyev in the context of German voluntarism

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Proposed paper focuses on the aspect of German voluntarism and its implications in the prose of Russian modernist writer Leonid Andreyev. The author of the paper explores the main ideas behind the German system of thought in the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and confronts them with Andreyev’s literary writings. The author emphasizes the concept of metaphysical ‘will’ as an underlying principle of voluntaristic philosophy and uses it as a reference point in the analysis of the writer’s prose. The paper attempts to define the purpose of ‘will’ in the life of Andreyev’s characters and to demonstrate its oppressive nature in relation to the notion of human freedom and self-fulfilment.

Keywords

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ANDREYEV LEONID; SCHOPENHAUER ARTHUR; GERMAN VOLUNTARISM; WILL; EXISTENCE

• Publisher: Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica
• Journal: Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52 – 63

Contributors

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Dúbravská Natália

• Železná Breznica 53, 962 34 Železná Breznica, Slovak Republic