НА „ДРУМУ“ КА ЉУБАВИ БЕЗ МОТИВА ИЛИ ИЗМЕЂУ ВОЉЕ ЗА МОЋ И ВОЉЕ ЗА СМИСЛОМ У РОМАНУ БРАЋА КАРАМАЗОВИ Ф. М. ДОСТОЈЕВСКОГ И ДРАМИ НА ОТВОРЕНОМ ДРУМУ СТОЈАНА СТИВА ТЕШИЋА
On the “Road“ to Love Without Motive or Between the Will to Power and Will to Meaning in F. M. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Steve Tesich’s On The Open Road

Summary/Abstract: This paper strives to connect thematically and conceptually F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov (in particular The legend of the Grand Inquisitor) and Steve Tesich’s play On The Open Road and shed light on their similarity in terms of these authors’ understanding of the will to meaning as an omnipotent and essential driving force of human nature. In addition to the motif of Christ’s second coming, which the authors deliberately incorporate into their works so as to criticize the historical practice of destruction and violation of human creative potentialities which keeps occurring within the materialistic, utilitarian and technological world, Tesich and Dostoevsky are preoccupied with the problem of human (negative) freedom from and (positive) freedom for, as well as the rule of instrumental reason that has reduced man to a calculating machine. Drawing on the ideas of Dostoevsky, Fromm, Schopenhauer, Golding and Tesich, the paper also discusses the modern man’s ethos and tries to find a solution to the global morality crisis that has taken over the entire civilization of our time.

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