Hegel, the End of History, and the Future

In Phenomenology of Spirit (1806) Hegel is often held to have announced the end of history, where ''history'' is to be understood as the long pursuit of ends towards which humanity had always been striving. In this, the first book in English to thoroughly critique this entrenched view, Eric Michael Dale argues that it is a misinterpretation. Dale offers a reading of his own, showing how it sits wi...