Abstract

DOBRE, Catalina Elena. Notes from the Underground. The critique of the establised order on Fyodor Dostoevsky. Rev. filos. Univ. Iberoam. [online]. 2022, vol.54, n.153, pp.16-45.  Epub May 17, 2024. ISSN 2954-4602.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rdf.v54i153.139.

In this article I propose a rereading of the novel Notes from the Underground by Feodor Dostoevsky from a philosophical approach. Considered by some the novel in which the writer expounds his anthropology, or by others understood as a social criticism in the mouth of a strange character; from my point of view this novel is an exercise that deconstruct the modern rationality and makes Dostoevsky an anti-modern thinker. So, I propose an exercise which starts from the idea that the Russian philosopher of Jewish origin, Lev Shestov affirmed about this writing; that its represents the true “critique of pure reason”. Then I will try to demonstrate that the novel Notes from the Underground is one of Dostoevsky’s most philosophical writings because it presents the deconstruction of modern rationality, and I will try to analyze how Dostoevsky understands the reason and what has been its position in relation to this.

Keywords : critics; reason; underground; established order.