Abstract

Can we do without Hegel today? Can we philosophize without Hegel, without competing with him? For a long time, especially in the sphere of analytic and empiricist philosophy, Hegel was considered a “dead dog,” not even worth discussing, and we were nearly ashamed to mention him. But nowadays it seems that the situation is changing and maybe has already come around to the time for a more fair and balanced judgment of Hegel’s significance for contemporary thought. So, we have to be grateful to Antimo Negri for his attempt to sketch a map of the presence of Hegel’s philosophy in 20th century culture. His book is not in fact a history of Hegel-Forschung, but rather a Wirkungsgeschichte, or in short, an attempt to measure the level of Hegelianism in our culture.