In this introduction to the London Old Hegelians I look at Hegel’s critique of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, as outlined in the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).
I also examine Chris Arthur’s claim that there was in fact three Hegels, as if one was not enough to be getting on with.
Towards the end of my introduction I refer to Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (2019), which you can purchase here. In it McGowan attempts to reconstruct Hegel’s work after the left / right split and the case he puts is most interesting. His publication also provides readers who are new to Hegel with an excellent overview of his thinking.
Image: The Blood of the Murdered Crying for Vengeance by James Gillray, 1793. This image is used under the Creative Commons licence and has been downloaded with gratitude from the British Museum website.
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