History of the Reception of Hegel II

Kai Froeb 2026

1945–1989

From the postwar years to the collapse of the Eastern bloc: the Western and the Eastern line, 1968, the Third World, the turn to the present.

Part II: The Western Bloc - Liberalism as Antifascism (1945-1968)

  1. The Critique of Totalitarianism (1944-1951) — 8 articles
  2. The German Hegel Renaissance - Conservative Modernity (1950s-1960s) — 9 articles 3a. Dieter Henrich and the Heidelberg School — The Theory of Self-Consciousness — 6 articles
  3. Anglo-American Appropriation of Hegel (1945-1968) - From British Idealism to Analytic Rehabilitation — 11 articles 5a. Analytic Self-Critique and Its Hegelian Consequences (1950-1989) — 8 articles 5b. Philosophy of Science and Dialectic – The Post-Positivist Revolution (1962-1989) — 6 articles
  4. The French Explosion — From Kojève to Derrida (1945-1970) — 9 articles
  5. The Frankfurt School - Dialectic of Enlightenment and Its Consequences — 2 articles 7a. Protestant Theology and Hegel – From Dialectical Theology to Rehabilitation (1945-1989) — 7 articles 7b. Catholic Philosophy and Hegel – From Neo-Scholasticism to the Transcendental Turn (1945-1989) — 10 articles
  6. Jewish Philosophy after Auschwitz – Can One Still Read Hegel after the Shoah? (1945-1989) — 8 articles
  7. 7.3 Theodor W. Adorno — The Philosophy of the Double Blockade — 14 articles

Part III: The Eastern Bloc – Marxism as Anti-fascism (1945-1989)

  1. The GDR — Between Orthodoxy, Independence, and Cultural Diplomacy (1949-1990) — 8 articles
  2. East Central Europe – Independent Paths in the Eastern Bloc — 6 articles 11a. Western European Marxism Beyond the Frankfurt School — 8 articles

Part IV: The Third World – Decolonization and Recognition (1945-1989)

  1. The Methodological Preconditions - Reading Hegel After Colonialism — 4 articles
  2. Africa - Dialectic of Liberation — 5 articles
  3. Latin America - Philosophy of Liberation and Dependency Theory — 5 articles

Part V: 1968 - The Multiple Crisis and Its Philosophical Processing

  1. 1968 as Watershed – Global Revolt and Philosophical Reorientation — 14 articles
  2. The Reactions to 1968 - Conservative Turn, New Left, and Terrorism — 6 articles

Part VI: The Systematic Alternatives (1976-1985)

17a. Johannes Heinrichs - Reflection Systems Theory as a Systematic Alternative (1976-1981) — 7 articles 17b. Jürgen Habermas - The Theory of Communicative Action and Its Limits (1981-1989) — 8 articles

Part VII: Structuralism and Postmodernism – Radical Critique of Reason (1950s–1980s)

17c. Structuralism – The Systematic Precondition of Postmodernism (1945-1968) — 8 articles 33. Transition: From German to French Critique of Hegel — 1 articles

Part VIII: The Defenders Against Postmodernism

18a. The Defenders I – Discourse-Ethical Defense (Habermas, Taylor, Apel) — 5 articles 19. The Defenders II – Philological Defense (Hegel Renaissance II) — 3 articles 20. The Defenders III – Ethical Defense (Küng/Global Ethic) — 10 articles 32. Fußnote: — 8 articles

Part IX: New Horizons

  1. Critique of Subject-Centeredness (Feminism, Postcolonialism, Ecology + Rawls) — 4 articles 21a. Rawls, Communitarianism, and the Debate over Justice — 5 articles
  2. The Transformation of Mediation - Signs, Media, Simulation — 5 articles
  3. The Technicization of Thought — Computers, AI, Formalization — 6 articles
  4. — 2 articles

Part X: Conclusion

  1. Systemic Balance 1945–1989 — 8 articles