Was Hegelianism surpressed?
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The picture that Hegel / Hegel literature / movement / teaching in total was banned in the 1840s and that from then on up to the 1980s or so there was no Hegel literature is, hm, wrong.

a) 

The problem in the post 1815s was not Hegel but the democratic and enlightment movement. Even Hegel had to suffer from this repression (but somehow survived the attacks against his fears), see for example d'Hondts "Hegel in his time" (I guess you will like that book).

b)

So also in the 1840s, the King did not ban Hegelianism. He fight against democratic and communist radicals, among them what was then seen as the "Hegelian left wing" (we may differ from whether they were named rightly and whether people like Bauer or Stirner or Marx did have enough in common all to be put in the same bag. Probably this label was more a political label then a scientific or theological one).

So while also non Hegelian democratic etc had problems, Hegelians like Karl Rosenkranz (who, btw, was also engaged in the 1848 revolution, but who acted a bit more carefully), remained professors and could continue to teach (Rosenkranz for example remained Professor in liberal Königsberg up to his death in the 1870s).

c)

Much more then the "ban of the king", the Hegel movement suffered from the critique of Trendlenburgs "Philosophische Untersuchungen".

Many people saw in it the prove of the falsehood of Hegel's logic.

It influenced many people. Trendlenburg is probably the most influential philosopher in the immediate post Hegelian years, he also had a very influential position in the Prussian state (I think he was responsible for the Prussian education system at that time). German philosophy history books sometimes call him the "great unknown gray eminence of the 19th century philosophy in Germany".

It is only today that German Hegelians take away Trendlenburgs arguments step by step (for example Hösle "Hegels System" and Wandschneider "Grundzüge...").

d)

After Hegel had been "scientifically proved false" by Trendlenburg in the eyes of the educated public, for the 2nd half of the 19th century, we see the rise of natural science in conjunction with Kantianism in the universities and Schopenhauer and Marx outside of the universities on the other hand.

e)

Beginning from the 20th century, we see a new interest in Hegel in Germany, on the one hand based on the publications of Hegel's early writings by Nolte and Dilthey, otoh, by the neo-Kantian movement slowly, slowly evolving to an understanding of Hegelian questions/answers.

f)

At least since the late 1960s we have a continuous and even raising interest in Hegel in the German universities. German philosophy as it appears in the university and how it is funded by the state, is mainly historically oriented, and in this field is mostly oriented towards Kant and, even more, Hegel. These two are by far the most influential positions in Germans today's academic philosophy. There are dozens, probably even hundreds of books and dissertations on Hegel every year in Germany. Every university in Germany has one or more Hegel specialists, and dissertations are often on Hegel. The Hegel institute told me something of 15,000 books only dedicated to some aspects of Hegel's philosophy in their archives.

g)

Also, in other countries, there is a bigger interest in Hegel. I was told that in Italy, there was a constant interest in Hegel all the years, and Hegelianism was influential in the big political discussions in Italy.

In France there was a, probably influenced by Marxism, interest in Hegel at least from the 2nd world war.

And in case of the English culture, I heard that there was an interest in Hegel especially in the 19th century (probably also due to German emigrants). Take the New Orleans Hegelians, for an example.

Btw, I heard that these New Orleans Hegelians again stumbled on religious interpretation issues, so once again I'm extremely alerted to be very very prudent in this area. So my position is to move to a religious interpretation / position last (As the system suggests <g>), only after the ground has very carefully and solid been laid.

h)

Also, in the fields of law and religion, there was always a kind of interest in Hegel in Germany at least since the beginning of the 20th century.


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