Hegel

The figure of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has had such a contradictory reception throughout history as was his own philosophy. Acclaimed and almost venerated for a good part of the 19th century, turned into a sort of "official philosopher" of the Prussian state, with the change of century his prestige suffered a dizzying fall, until it became for philosophy something like a museum piece, rare and enigmatic. Which of those two readings is correct? Or perhaps none of them is and, as Hegel himself would have suggested, we should reach a synthesis that goes beyond them? This is, in part, the purpose of this book, an invitation to delve into Hegel's thinking, or at least to provoke a certain curiosity about the author. In it, Víctor Gómez Pin intends to rescue, even partially, the thought of the great philosopher of German idealism, investigating the ability that he still retains to influence the reflection of our time and to transform the person who enters it. It is well known that some names in philosophy carry so much weight that they cannot be dispensed with, as in the cases of Plato, Aristotle or Kant, who represent absolutely nuclear moments of the discipline. Can the same be said of Hegel? The reader will judge at the end of the reading if it is, as some considered, a beacon in philosophy.