Phenomenon of love: antinomy and paradoxes

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the problem of love, its contradictions and paradoxes, as reflected in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century. In particular, the works of K. N. Leontiev, F. M. Dostoyevsky and L.N. Tolstoy are considered in the context of the theoretical constructs of representatives of Russian and foreign idealistic philosophy, as well as individual writers of world fiction.