Parallel motion: on the question of freedom in Hegel and Dostoevsky

This paper explores the correspondences between Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary work and thought and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The focus throughout is on the notion of freedom which is discussed in its key modalities by reference to a number of Hegel’s works, primarily The Philos...

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Published in:Studies in East European thought Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 835 - 859
Main Author: Gladanac, Nikolai
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.10.2025
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Art exhibitions
Consciousness
Education
Freedoms
History
Logic
Morality
Novels
Phenomenology
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Political Science
Proximity
Russian literature
Self-consciousness
Universal
Finitude
Negation
Infinity
Particular
Objectivity
Individual
Subjectivity
Will
Abstraction
Freedom
ISSN:0925-9392, 1573-0948
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Summary:This paper explores the correspondences between Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary work and thought and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The focus throughout is on the notion of freedom which is discussed in its key modalities by reference to a number of Hegel’s works, primarily The Philosophy of Right , Science of Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit . The exposition of Hegelian Freedom includes its relation to Reason, finitude and Infinity, Self-Consciousness, and the syllogistic structure of Universal/Particular and Individual. This constellation of terms associated with Freedom in Hegel is marshalled towards a reading of various texts, both fictional and non-fictional, across Dostoevsky’s corpus in order to set in relief the remarkable proximity between the Absolute Spirit of Hegel’s philosophy and that of the literary art of Dostoevsky.
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ISSN:0925-9392
1573-0948
DOI:10.1007/s11212-025-09730-0