Editors' Introduction. The Owl's Flight. Hegel's Legacy in a Different Voice

Despite Karl Marx's well-known metaphorical labeling of Hegel as a "dead dog" Hegelian philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century is anything but obsolete. After many seasons of strong ideological readings, the attitude toward Hegelian thought has changed considerably in recent decades, unlocking innovative horizons of research, and engaging with a line of thinking that, like Hegel's, has not yet exhausted its theoretical implications. A primary question is whether it is possible to deal with Hegel's conceptualization in a "different voice", for instance from a gender point of view, referring to a plastic anthropology, or to a political community that respects differences and honours philosophy.