When melancholy and redemption take the form of a question: reflections on the activity of thought in Crime and Punishment
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2025.235953Keywords:
Crime and Punishment, Arendt, Bakhtin, Dialogism, PolyphonyAbstract
Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s (2004) reflections on thinking as a fundamental human activity, this paper aims to examine the representation of such activity in the character of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment (1866). To this end, the analysis engages with the concepts of dialogism and polyphony as developed by Mikhail Bakhtin (2018).
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ARENDT, Hannah. Algumas questões de filosofia moral. In: ARENDT, Hannah. Responsabilidade e julgamento. Trad. Rosaura Eichenberg. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004, p. 112 – 212.
BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Os gêneros do discurso. In: BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Os gêneros do discurso. Trad. Paulo Bezerra. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2016, p. 11-69.
BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Problemas da poética de Dostoiévski. 5ª ed. Trad. Paulo Bezerra. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 2018.
DOSTOIÉVSKI, Fiódor. Crime e castigo. 6ª ed. Trad. Paulo Bezerra. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2001.
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