Author: Pavlyshyn, Marko

Source: The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 86, Number 3, 1 July 2008 , pp. 420-442(23)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

Abstract:

The Ukrainian prose writer Ol'ha Kobylians'ka (1862-1942) signalled interest in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche through extensive verbatim quotations in her satirical dialogue `He and She' (1892) and her novel The Princess (1896). Kobylians'ka was sympathetic to the exhortation to individuals, implicit in Nietzsche's idea of the Übermensch, to pursue self-transformation and self-fulfilment. But she was also sceptical of it as a utopian idea unaccompanied by a strategy for its social realization and susceptible to demagogic misuse; and she did not acquiesce in Nietzsche's disparagement of ressentiment as an attribute of slaves, seeing it instead as the discontent with oppression that precedes any liberation.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: The School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University

Publication date: 2008-07-01

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