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Teleological Striving and Redemption in The Death of Ivan Il'ich
Ist Teil von
Tolstoy studies journal, 2000, Vol.12, p.35-49
Ort / Verlag
Rochester, NY: Tolstoy Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
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Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]in Hegel's interpretation, fear of death was a useful mechanism working on behalf of Universal Spirit, which directed men back to universally meaningful social activity (Taylor 155). [...]the young Tolstoy's guilt at his personal idleness and ineffectualness that, in his opinion, separated him from active life within the universal whole. First of all, in it, as Tolstoy directly and semipublicly announced, he intended to square his accounts with his former, wrong, morally unreformed life and thus rid himself of its terrible deceptions. [...]Tolstoy conceived of DII as a fictional medium in which to test the new mode of being in reasonable consciousness.