“Possible Worlds” and the Meanings of F. Dostoevsky's Providence in the Messianic Receptions of the ХХth Century
- Authors: Garipova G.T.1
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Affiliations:
- Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs
- Issue: Vol 26, No 3 (2021): F.M. DOSTOEVSKY: MODERN RECEPTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS
- Pages: 349-362
- Section: LITERARY CRITICISM
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/27638
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-3-349-362
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The article analyzes the specifics of the receptive impact of the artistic Messianic concept of F. Dostoevsky, which influences providential contexts in the cultural philosophy of the ХХth century. The possibility to identify the features of the artistic embodiment of the Russian Messianic problems in cultural philosophy and literature of the ХХth century determines the relevance of this study. The analysis of the strategy of modeling “possible worlds” in Dostoevsky’s work, which referentially determines the development of Russian utopian / dystopian providence, determines the novelty of the study. The concepts of the Christological axiosphere, which reflects Dostoevsky's Messianic concept, determine the most important coordinates of the providential receptive trends of the ХХth century. They are objects of analysis in the article. It is proved that the semiotics of messianic motifs in Russian literature of the XXth century is connected, first of all, with the Abrahamic religious context, which is built into the most complex providential concept of the anthropological Christology of F. Dostoevsky. According to the principles of fractal logic, the writer generates the Abrahamic canon in the key messianic world-modeling metametaphors. Dostoevsky's messianic pretext is referentially manifested in Russian literature of the twentieth century - in the work of Russian Symbolists, who understand the Messiah as a divine-existential personality, in the works of writers of the late XXth century, who interprete the messiah as a “collective personality” - a substitutionary sacrifice. In our opinion, the chiliastic aspiration of messianic Christology and anthropology is also connected with the influence of Dostoevsky. However, we should talk about the dissipative variability of messianic concepts due to the contextual reference of messianic ideas of eastern origin, in particular, the Zoroastrian, Sufi and Islamic contexts are found. The artistic idea of messianism in Russian literature of the XXth century can also be considered as a semiotic sign system that reveals historiosophical and socio-political meanings, modeling the tendencies of anthropologization and ontologization of the literary process.
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Gulchira T. Garipova
Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs
Author for correspondence.
Email: ggaripova2017@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7675-2570
Doctor of Philosophy in Philology (PhD), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Russian and Foreign Philology
1 Nikitskaya St, Vladimir, 600000, Russian FederationReferences
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