For over thirty years, Hegel scholars have known that many of the views of Hegel rife in the Anglo-Saxon world are higly inaccurate. The essays collected in this volume show the myths and legends to be just that. The author has selected a set of essays that treat and effectively debunk the various Hegel myths and legends. Divided into sections addressing the various myths and augmented by Stewart's informative introduction and a bibliography, this collection should be of interest to scholars and nonspecialists alike.
Part 1 The myth of the rational and the actual. Part 2 The myth of Hegel as totalitarian theorist or Prussian apologist. Part 3 The myth that Hegel glorified war. Part 4 The myth of the end of history. Part 5 The myth that Hegel denied the law of contradiction. Part 6 Miscellaneous myths.
