Owl and the Rooster

Since 1945, there have been two waves of Anglo-American writing on Hegel''s political thought. The first defended it against works portraying Hegel as an apologist of Prussian reaction and a theorist of totalitarian nationalism. The second presented Hegel as a civic humanist critic of liberalism in the tradition of Rousseau. The first suppressed elements of Hegel''s thought that challenge liberali...