Abstract

FONTANA, Vanessa Furtado. Husserl and Dostoevsky: a phenomenological approach to Notes from underground. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.28, e023025. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v28.e023025.

Is it possible to think of a relationship between Dostoevsky's Memoirs from the Underground and Edmund Husserl's phenomenology? The intention of this article is to think about this work of Dostoevsky through Husserl's phenomenology, through an ontological approach focused on the concept of consciousness. The relationship with Nietzsche's philosophy is overcome, to show new perspectives of interpretation, which guarantee a springboard for a contemporary philosophical interpretation. Within this line of thought, some themes of analysis that pervade both authors are evoked, existentialism, consciousness, reason and psychology. The research methodology is a review and bibliographical analysis of the themes of consciousness and existentialism within a phenomenological perspective, which expands the rational knowledge of phenomenology and at the same time makes one think about the limits of reason within the writer's writing. The order of our exposition rescues the existential aspect present in both intellectuals, it shows that Husserl does not leave aside an existential thought about life, and that he is very close to Dostoevsky. In a second moment, a reflection on consciousness and its importance and limits is presented in this phenomenological and existential perspective, and to conclude the criticisms of reason from the side of literature and the possibility of a rationality thought without the modern dichotomy. As a conclusion of this article, it moves towards the initial thought of overcoming logical rationality, towards an existential-phenomenological rationality, which approaches the themes of Russian emotions through the concept of an intentional consciousness added to the material contents that add to the experiences of consciousness.

Keywords : Existentialism; Phenomenology; Consciousness; Reason.

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