![]() ![]() ![]() Petersburg, and the mental anguish that tortures Raskolnikov as he comes to terms with his crime. In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky relates the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, a man who murders a pawnbroker in St. This project illuminates one largely unexplored area of thought from a major source of our modern culture. This research is important because one of the essential sources of inspiration for an incredibly influential author is mostly absent from analytical texts. Although scholars have explored many of the themes in Crime and Punishment, almost all have overlooked Hegelianism as a major source of inspiration for Dostoevsky. That philosophy, Left Hegelianism, held that ultimately all reality is subjectable to rational categorization, an idea that grew into a movement that was partially responsible for rampant atheism, anarchism, and terrorism in 19th century Russia. The text argues that Raskolnikov is largely an agent of Left Hegelianism created by Dostoevsky to illustrate a philosophy that the author opposed. Special attention is given to Georg Hegel's section on “World Historical Individuals” from Philosophy of History and Rodion Raskolnikov's philosophy from Crime and Punishment. This project examines the role of the Left Hegelian school of philosophy in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. ![]()
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