By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoevsky’s so much progressive novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line among 19th- and twentieth-century fiction, and among the visions of self every one century embodied. probably the most notable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former legitimate who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground life. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating assault on social utopianism and an statement of man’s primarily irrational nature.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations became the traditional, supply us a brilliantly devoted variation of this vintage novel, conveying all of the tragedy and tormented comedy of the unique.
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E . , of its launching into history and its historicity. 'H H usserl had posed this question in the same terms but in i ts most inclusive extension and with a more cri tical , but less h istorical, inflexion i n FTL, § 1 00, pp. 263-64. There, however, it is limited to the egological sphere of Objecti v ity . Here it is focu sed on the possibility of objective spirit as the condition for h istory and in this respect takes the opposite view to Dilthey' s question. Dilthey, in effect, starts from the already constituted objective spiri t .
The sense of "only once" or of "once and for all," which is the essential mode of the object's ideal existence and thus that which dis tinguishes the object from the multiplicity of related acts and lived experiences, seems to have been clearly defined in these very terms by Herbart (Psychologie als Wissenschaft, II, § 1 20, p. 1 75) and taken up again by Husserl. The latter, recognizing that he owes much to Herbart and praising him for having distinguished better than Kant between the - 70 - From the perspective of our text , this dissociation finds its most direct and illum inat ing explication in EJ (§ 65 , p.
Cf. FTL, §9, pp. 36-38. " Thus the geometer . . will not th ink of exploring, besides geomet rical shapes, geometrical thinking" (p. 36). 4 0 On these questions, cf. in particular Jean Cavailles, S ur f a Logique et f a theorie de fa science (Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1 947), pp. 70ff. : Tr�m-Duc-Th {lO , Phenomenofogie, p . 35 : and especially S . Bachelard , A Study of Husserl' s Logic [Part I , Ch . 3 ] . pp. 43-63 . 47 This ideal is clearly defined by H u sserl , notably in the LI, I , Pro!.
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