Philosophical Shift: ‘An Extraordinary Hegel Renaissance’ Is Under Way

Two new books argue that Hegel was hardly the arch-conservative and proto-fascist that liberal thinkers such as Isaiah Berlin and Karl Popper denounce.

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Portrait of Hegel by Friedrich Julius Ludwig Sebbers, detail. Via Wikimedia Commons

‘Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom’
By Klaus Vieweg
Stanford University Press, 488 pages

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