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Дионисийский комплекс идей раннего Вячеслава Иванова
Dionysian complex of ideas of early Vyacheslav Ivanov

Author(s): Andrea Alexandrova
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Vyacheslav Ivanov; the motif of Dionysos; Po Zvezdam;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, which is a fragment of the PhD dissertation just completed, I have analyzed the motif of Dionysos in Vyacheslav Ivanov’s book Po Zvezdam. In the first years after Ivanov’s return into Russia from abroad, that is approximately from 1905 to 1909, this motif was one of the innermost parts of his message to the Russian readership. Although in the essay Nietzsche i Dionis Ivanov declares that he accepts the Nietzsche’s interpretation of Dionysos, step by step he fills the motif with a different content, reinterpreting it in the light of his own ideas. “Dionysos of Ivanov” comprises a group of various ideas, which I expounded systematically in the beginning of the present article. These religious and philosophical ideas are parts of a coherent system, having its own ontology, anthropology and epistemology. As the earlier draft O mnogobožii testifies, the same ideas, without any significant changes, existed in the thought of Ivanov from, at least, 1901 or 1902. Their development could be traced in the author’s writings of different genres: in his study Ellinskaja religija stradajušěego boga, poetry, and essays

  • Issue Year: 46/2001
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 361-394
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Russian