http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/dostoevsky Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 31 May 2026 14:09:07 -0400 Sun, 31 May 2026 14:09:07 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/543/dostoevskys-hegelian-parody-in-crime-and-punishment By Ian L. O'Kidhain - This project examines the role of the Left Hegelian school of philosophy in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 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. The text argues that Raskolnikov is largely an agent of Left Hegelianism created by Dostoevsky to illustrate a philosophy that the author opposed. That philosophy, Left Hegelianism, held that ultimately all reality is subjectable to rational categorization, an idea that grew into a movement that... Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:02 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/543/dostoevskys-hegelian-parody-in-crime-and-punishment