@ARTICLE{Sucharski_Tadeusz_Dostoevsky_2021, author={Sucharski, Tadeusz}, number={No 2}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={95-111}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={The paper presented here is an attempt to highlight the importance of Andrzej Walicki’s works for the Polish expertise on Dostoevsky. His essay: Dostoevsky and the idea of freedom (1959) was the first fully scientific attempt in Poland to interpret Dostoevsky’s thoughts. Numerous Polish articles and essays devoted to Dostoevsky that preceded Walicki’s paper were not deliberately academic, and substantially departed from the results achieved by Russian researchers. Walicki interprets Dostoevsky as a philosopher that presents his characters as victims of ‘the dialectic of willfulness’: suicides, murderers, supporters of tyranny. Walicki also notices the efforts by the Russian writer to develop some positive ideas. Dostoevsky focused on the faith of the Russian people who had preserved ‘the true Christian element’. The author defines this stance as ‘conservative utopia’.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Dostoevsky of Walicki, or the beginnings of the Polish expertise on Dostoevsky}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/120390/2021-02-PFIL-09-Sucharski.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2021.137373}, keywords={depersonalization, dialectic of willfulness, F. Dostoevsky, idea of freedom, personalism}, }