Subversion or Conciliation? The Challenges of Hegel's Legacy

Since Hegel's time, his thought has been the object of both fidelity and betrayal, often by the same interpreter. If in his century, as is well known, Hegel's legacy could assume divisive characteristics through the splitting of the school, particularly in political, theological, and systematic perspectives, the twentieth century has given much more attention to contingency and existence, in an attempt to discover 'another' Hegel. While in the 1930s refugees were in many cases the most innovative readers, nowadays women philosophers propose the most original pathways for a renewed approach.