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.

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.