User:John Z/drafts/Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the 20th century, Hegel's philosophy underwent a major renaissance. This was due partly to the rediscovery and reevaluation of him as the philosophical progenitor of Marxism by philosophically oriented Marxists, partly through a resurgence of the historical perspective that Hegel brought to everything, and partly through increasing recognition of the importance of his dialectical method. Lenin's notes on his reading of Hegel's Science of Logic were influential, not only in the East. The book that did the most to reintroduce Hegel into the Western Marxist canon was perhaps Georg Lukacs's History and Class Consciousness. This sparked a renewed interest in Hegel reflected in the work of Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Alexandre Kojève and Gotthard Günther among others. The Hegel renaissance also highlighted the significance of Hegel's early works, i.e. those published prior to the Phenomenology of Spirit. More recently two prominent American philosophers, John McDowell and Robert Brandom (sometimes, half-seriously, referred to as the Pittsburgh Hegelians), have exhibited a marked Hegelian influence. U.S. neoconservative Francis Fukuyama's controversial book The End of History and the Last Man was heavily influenced by Hegel's interpreter Alexandre Kojève. Among modern scientists, the physicist David Bohm, the mathematician William Lawvere, the logician Kurt Godel and the biologist Ernst Mayr have been deeply interested in or influenced by Hegel's philosophical work.

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Ahem. Skon, the man generally considered to be the greatest and most influential logician of the 20th century, and one of the most important of all time, would have probably disagreed with you. Take a look at Hao Wang's books on him and other sources. Another interesting case is Bertrand Russell, certainly a logician in the such a recently fashionable narrow circumscription you propose. He at one time characterized his own philosophical development as going from Kant to Kant. In another place he pointed out that when he talked of Kant as influencing his youth, he really meant Hegel, or Kant as mediated by Hegel. And if one looks at his final works, it is clear that the latter "Kant" in the from and to also bears a remarkable resemblance to old Georg. :-) John Z 05:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)