'Transliteration' of Concepts: What Happens to Philosophy When It Becomes Part of a Literary Work?

• In Event: Philosophy and Literature: Mutual Distinctiveness and Reciprocal Bond

Abstract

The paper argues that philosophical concepts undergo profound change when they are woven into a literary text, and can longer be read in the same way as outside such a text, that is, as philosophy proper. The transformation of philosophy into a material in the hands of a literary artist changes its nature: it is no longer a quest for truth but a means of performing an artistic task. Examples will be drawn from Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Mikhail Bulgakov.

Author

• Vladimir Leonidovich Marchenkov, Ohio U