![]() ![]() Over 100 years later, Karl Popper wrote in The Open Society and its Enemies that Hegel was a proto-fascist apologist for the totalitarian Prussian state. Influential fellow 19th-century philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling disparaged Hegel and, some say, grossly misrepresented his philosophy. ![]() Hegel has been subject to countless smears and distortions since his death. It isn’t entirely Hegel’s fault that his ideas are not widely understood though it doesn’t help that German Idealism, the philosophical movement to which he belonged, used highly obtuse language that’s even more difficult to understand in translation. In 2021, Hegel’s vast body of work remains mostly inaccessible to non-specialists. Legend has it that when the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was nearing his final moments in November of 1831, he purportedly uttered the following words: “Only one man ever understood me, and even he didn’t understand me.” This assessment, like many of those offered by the notoriously obtuse and complicated German philosopher, can be applied today. ![]()
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