Dialogism and recognition: identity formation of Dostoevsky's protagonists
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation examines how the depiction of human consciousness in Fedor Dostoevsky's novels embodies the intersubjective model of human identity formation established in philosophy and social sciences. The sociological relationship of Dostoevsky's protagonists to other persons and to the portrayed social environment embodies the principles of intersubjective recognition, which stands for interpersonal and societal channels of acknowledging an independent and autonomous self-consciousness. I argue that Dostoevsky's polyphonic literary form, as it has been explicated by Mikhail Bakhtin, inherently contains a recognitive vision of the emergence and existence of a self-consciousness. I ground the dialogical consciousness of Dostoevsky's protagonists in the sociological framework of recognition by showing that Bakhtin's underlying premise of an intersubjective structure of self-consciousness is shared, to varying extent and within their own theoretical frameworks, by Axel Honneth's theory of recognition, Jurgen Habermas's discourse ethics, Theodor Adorno's negative dialectics, and George Mead's social psychology, among others. These theoretical parallels help to define and interpret the identity formation processes of Dostoevsky's protagonists within the sociological worlds recreated in his novels Poor Folk, The Double, Crime and Punishment, and The Demons. These novels' protagonists experience a loss of their individual autonomy when they are denied recognition of their rights and status by the ambient societal regime, and when they, in turn, fail to recognize the independence of another selfhood. When Dostoevsky's characters seek recognition from others, be it persons or social institutions, without recognizing the inviolability of the other in turn, they are compelled by the force of objective circumstances and the deterioration of their psychological state to realize that recognition can only be mutual and cannot be attained unilaterally. The protagonists examined here present the pattern of a self-inflicted loss of moral, psychological, and social autonomy due to their effacement of the other from their ethical horizon. This process affects not only the protagonists' own existence, but also the persons with whom they come into contact and who may suffer from the protagonists' actions. My research indicates that Dostoevsky's fiction, owing to its unique formal features, embodies the recognitive principles of human identity formation in the lives of his characters.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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