ABOUT THIS BOOK

For many years, scholars in German idealism have known that a number of the views of Hegel rife in the Anglo-Saxon world are highly inaccurate. The essays collected in The Hegel Myths and Legends disabuse students and nonspecialists of these misconceptions by exposing the myths for what they are.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

JON STEWART is an associate research professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.

REVIEWS

"The Hegel Myths and Legends is a wonderful book to counter prejudices against Hegel's philosophy. In addition, the essays give insight into why and how the myths were created. . . . Stewart's collection of essays should facilitate that Hegel's philosophy can no longer be dismissed as easily as has been and is still done." —Review of Metaphysics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1. The Myth of the Rational and Actual

1. Hegel: The Real and the Rational
M. W. Jackson

2. Hegel's Dictum that the Rational is Actual and the Actual is Rational; Its Ontological Content and Its Function in Discourse
Yirmiahu Yovel

3. On the Actuality of the Rational and the Rationality of the Actual
Emil L. Fackenheim

Part 2. The Myth of Hegel as Totalitarian Theorist or Prussian Apologist

4. Hegel and Political Trends: A Criticism of the Political Hegel Legends
Henning Ottmann

5. Hegel and Prussianism
T. M. Knox

6. The Hegel Myth and Its Method
Walter A. Kaufmann

7. Is the Hegelian State Totalitarian?
Franz Grégoire

8. Hegel and Nationalism
Shlomo Avineri

Part 3. The Myth that Hegel Glorified War

9. The Problem of War in Hegel's Thought
Shlomo Avineri

10. Hegel's Account of War
D. P. Verene

11. Hegel's Theory of Sovereignty, International Relations, and War
Errol E. Harris

12. Hegel on War: Another Look
Steven Walt

Part 4. The Myth of the End of History

13. The End of History and the Return of History
Phillip T. Grier

14. Hegel and the End of History
Reinhart Klemens Maurer

15. The End of History in Hegel
H. S. Harris

Part 5. The Myth that Hegel Denied the Law of Contradiction

16. Hegel's Metaphysics and the Problem of Contradiction
Robert Pippin

17. From an Ontological Point of View: Hegel's Critique of the Common Logic
Robert Hanna

Part 6. Miscellaneous Myths

18. Hegel and the Seven Planets
Bertrand Beaumont

19. A Semi-Legend: The "Divinity" of the State in Hegel
Franz Grégoire

20. The Hegel Legend of "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis"
Gustav E. Mueller

21. Hegel and the Myth of Reason
Jon Stewart

Notes
Bibliography

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