The Idiot. Dostoevsky's Fantastic Prince: A Phenomenological Approach

by Dennis Patrick Slattery

In Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot, Prince Myshkin is more an angelic spirit than he is a man; he is a complex metaphor for fantasy, a mode of consciousness that is divorced from the earth and one which envisions human nature as univocal, unified, innocent, and free from contradiction.
Drawing on phenomenology to interrogate those common human dimensions of lived space and temporality, the study examines The Idiot to articulate the way in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082040053X
• ISBN13: 9780820400532
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 238 Pages