What is new on Hegel.net?

Kai Froeb

hegel.net was completely rebuilt and expanded for the conference of the International Hegel Society in Rome, 1–4 September 2026 — this is version 3. Early errors are to be expected; please excuse them and report them to us. We will correct them promptly.

This page lists what has been added since the last major revision. Older entries no longer appear here — anything more than a year old has either become self-evident or has been superseded.

The Third Version

hegel.net has been rebuilt. From the outside, what first stands out is that pages load faster and work well on mobile phones; what matters lies beneath that.

Two Commentaries on Hegel’s Major Works

A continuous commentary on the Logic in eighteen chapters and one on the Philosophy of Right in nine parts. They follow the movement of the matter itself, not the numbering of paragraphs, and can be read straight through or used for reference.

A Glossary of Terms

268 entries explain what Hegel means by Aufhebung, Maß, or Wesen — and where the term occurs in his works. In the text of the commentaries, each term is linked at its first occurrence, marked by a superscript G.

Where a term corresponds to a place in the system, the explanation also appears beneath the triangle itself.

The History of Hegel’s Reception

257 articles from Hegel’s death to the present: how his school administered the inheritance and fell apart over it, how Marx, Kierkegaard, and analytic philosophy contested the system, how its claim was taken up again after 1945. A preview of a three-volume presentation.

To the overview.

Pages on the People Around Hegel

The persons page lists them all with dates, their relation to Hegel, and their place in the system — filterable by role: sources, contemporaries, students, subjects of his presentation, and the authors of these pages. Wherever a name occurs in the text, its first occurrence links there.

Themes Across the System

The tree orders things by the concept, the works by their own progression. Cutting across this are the themes: who was in Jena around 1800, who belonged to the Spinozism controversy, which essays deal with practice. A person or an essay can stand under several themes at once — something a tree cannot do.

Frequently Asked Questions

The FAQ has been expanded and organized into seven parts, which follow one another and can be browsed in sequence:

How do I begin? — editions, order of reading, what to avoid
The Logic — dialectic, sublation, contradiction
Nature — natural science, evolution, the orbits of the planets
Spirit — freedom, the state, art and religion
The System — the three circles, closure
Politics and Objections — Prussia, totalitarianism, Africa
The Impact — Marx, existentialist philosophy, the present

Every answer cites the relevant passage in Hegel and, where one exists, the detailed article.

Cross-References Between Articles

Nearly three hundred cross-references connect articles that lie apart from one another yet belong together. Each carries a marker showing how they are connected — whether one acts upon the other, whether both treat the same subject, whether they contradict one another. The overview of markers explains them.

Equally important: the triangles themselves now carry a marker showing how they are structured. Not every triadic step in Hegel is the same — some follow the unfolding of the concept, some follow a temporal sequence, some order by regions of the world. Previously, this was accessible only to someone who could read it off the names. The markers now make it visible, and the modes of ordering explain what each one means.

In the past, each language version had its own menu. The German one had the most entries, the English one the second most — but not the same ones: what appeared here was missing there, and vice versa. The remaining languages had only a small selection of these.

Now all of them have essentially the same entries. Exceptions exist only where the matter itself is tied to a particular language: the audiobooks are in German, the game does not exist in Dutch.

The reason is more than a love of order. Anyone reading a page in their own language who finds a menu item missing cannot tell whether the item itself does not exist or only its translation is missing. Both are pieces of information — but only the second is true, and until now there was no way to tell them apart.

An Annotated Bibliography on the Logic

New is a bibliography that does not merely list but assesses: what a book covers, where its strength lies, whom it suits, and what to avoid. It covers the commentaries on the Logic from Erdmann to Stekeler-Weithofer, the Anglo-Saxon literature, and the introductory works.

The recommendations in the FAQ are drawn from it — who is worth reading today and why.

Checking it against our conceptual system shows that the bibliography goes further than the triangles: Houlgate, Winfield, Maybee, and Iber are discussed there but as yet have no place in the system. That is work still outstanding.

Extensions Within the System Itself

The history of German Idealism has been made more precise and expanded, following the division proposed by Johann Eduard Erdmann — a student who knew Hegel’s ordering and tried to carry it forward for the period after him.

The period after Hegel is new: Kai Froeb, together with Claude, has attempted to order it out of the history of Hegel’s reception. This is an attempt and nothing more — in many places still rough, in some surely wrong. It will continue to be improved and expanded, and suggestions as well as corrections are explicitly welcome. In the philosophy of nature, the additions from 2020 have been fully reviewed, corrected, and expanded:

For all five areas there is now a workshop report available: what succeeds in each, what does not, and why.

Everything we have added that is not found in Hegel is marked in square brackets.

The Philosophy After Hegel, Newly Ordered

The branch behind Hegel’s own history of philosophy had a structure but no assignment of content: of 542 chapters in the history of reception, 142 hung off a single node. Now each stands where it belongs — or explicitly nowhere.

The three branches are called The Given, The Suspicion, and The Return to the Ground. Each fails on its own terms, and from that failure the next follows: positivism cannot ground itself positivistically, and whoever unmasks everything unmasks himself as well.

A workshop report explains how we have ordered things and what remains open — for instance, philosophy of life, for which no place could be found that would hold.

Two excurses are being prepared, for questions that a threefold division cannot accommodate: the intellectual-historical roots of fascism and the Hegelians under National Socialism. The texts for these will follow.

History After Hegel’s Death

Hegel’s world history ends with the period of liberalism — that is, with his own present. What came after had until now stood as three keywords. Now it is structured:

Each epoch has three moments, as dense as the Reformation and no denser. The last is deliberately empty: What remains outstanding. Michelet dared to describe the future; it turned out otherwise.

A workshop report explains how we have ordered things and what remains questionable about it — above all, that the three answers to 1914 stand side by side without being of equal rank.

Six points connect this history to the philosophy after Hegel. The cross-references each state what kind of connection is meant: the same subject matter, anticipation, or conflict. For philosophy and history do not coincide — and this is true in Hegel himself.

What’s Still to Come

The translation into the remaining twelve languages. The comments, the glossary, the reception history, and the biographical pages are so far available only in German, some also in English.

If you would like to help with translation or report an error: the contact details can be found under Info.

Older news items were posted until August 2026 under Paths Through the Contributions and have since been removed from there.