History of the Reception of Hegel I

Kai Froeb 2026

1831–1945

From Hegel’s death to the end of the Second World War: the school and its disintegration, the challenges of the nineteenth century, the rediscoveries of the interwar period.

Part I: Hegel

  1. Hegel’s Philosophy - Foundations and Compass for the History of Reception — 8 articles

Part II: The First Generation (1831–1860)

  1. The Hegelian School and Its Disintegration — 10 articles
  2. Contemporary Opponents and Border-Crossers (1830-1860) — 4 articles
  3. Marx – The Materialist Transformation — 10 articles

Part III: Six Fundamental Challenges

  1. The Challenge of the Irrational - Will, the Unconscious, Life — 7 articles
  2. Darwin and the Challenge of Chance (1859-1900) — 6 articles
  3. The Challenge of Existence – Can the System Grasp the Particular? — 3 articles
  4. The Historicity Challenge - Is Reason Itself Historical? — 4 articles
  5. Historicism - Hegel’s Heirs in Historical Scholarship — 4 articles
  6. The Science Challenge - Speculation vs. Empiricism — 9 articles
  7. The Logical-Analytic Challenge (Frege, Mach, Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle) — 10 articles
  8. Transformations in the Human Sciences - From Hegel’s Objective Spirit to the Individual Sciences (1860-1930) — 4 articles
  9. The Practice Challenge — From Interpretation to Transformation — 6 articles

Part IV: International Dissemination Before the First World War (1860–1914)

  1. The Anglo-American Reception - Idealism Between Metaphysics and Pragmatism — 3 articles
  2. American Pragmatism and Hegel - Peirce, James, Mead — 5 articles
  3. The Russian Reception of Hegel - Two Generations in Search of Truth (1823-1917) — 8 articles
  4. Marginal Receptions before 1914 — Europe, Japan, and Colonial Discourses — 10 articles

Part V: The First World War as a Philosophical Caesura (1914-1920)

  1. The Collapse of the Old Order — 11 articles
  2. The Cultural Modernity of the Interwar Period (1918-1933) — 5 articles

Part VI: The Interwar Period (1920-1945)

  1. The Soviet Reception of Hegel as State Ideology (1920-1953) — 8 articles
  2. Vygotsky - Dialectical Psychology as Science (1924-1934) — 8 articles
  3. The German Academic Consolidation - Between Scholarship and Catastrophe — 7 articles
  4. The Phenomenological Challenge — Husserl and Heidegger against Construction — 5 articles
  5. International Reception II - The Interwar Period (1918-1945) — 9 articles
  6. The Early French Discovery of Hegel (1929-1945) — 4 articles
  7. The Italian Consummation (1900-1944) — 4 articles

Part VII: Catastrophe and Reckoning (1933-1951)

  1. Fascism as a Philosophical Challenge - A Systematic Analysis — 12 articles

Afterword and Conclusion: Productive Fragmentation and Its Lessons

  1. Conclusion: The Unfinished Task — and a Systematic Attempt — 2 articles
  2. The Development in Seven Parts (1831–1945) — 3 articles
  3. The Painful Reckoning: Philosophy After Auschwitz — 3 articles

Appendix A to Chapter 19: Current Dangers - Warning Signs Beyond Camps

  1. The Basic Structure of the Danger - Independent of Political Camps — 4 articles