Shakespeare and Dostoevsky: the human condition and the human ambition
The article considers W. Shakespeare's influence on F.M. Dostoevsky in terms of philosophical categories. I show that Dostoevsky viewed Shakespeare's works as embodying a particular type of human ambitions opposed both to Dostoevsky's own Christian ideal and to the atheistic worldview of his ideological opponents. Shakespeare's human being is a self-deifying individual who attempts, through an effort of his will, to turn himself in the center of the universe, possessing of his own, independent transcendence.
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Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Demons, Richard II, Henry IV, self-deification, Достоевский, Шекспир, «Бесы», «Ричард II», «Генрих IV», само-обожениеAuthors
| Name | Organization | |
| Kovalevskaya Tatyana V. | Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) | tkowalewska@yandex.ru |
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