TY - JOUR N2 - 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’. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120390/2021-02-PFIL-09-Sucharski.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120390 PY - 2021 IS - No 2 EP - 111 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2021.137373 KW - depersonalization KW - dialectic of willfulness KW - F. Dostoevsky KW - idea of freedom KW - personalism A1 - Sucharski, Tadeusz PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2021.07.27 T1 - Dostoevsky of Walicki, or the beginnings of the Polish expertise on Dostoevsky SP - 95 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/120390 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -