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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Historicism, Hegelianism, Young Hegelians, Master-slave dialectic, Absolute idealism, Aufheben, Right Hegelians, Ahistoricism, Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, Hegel-Archiv, Centre de recherche et de documentation sur Hegel, Hegel Society of America, Sittlichkeit, The Owl of Minerva, Glaucus, The Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung, Diamond net, Hegel House, Chemism, The Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft, Panlogism. Excerpt: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German pronunciation: ) (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system," to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature, the subject and object of knowledge, and psychology, the state, history, art, religion and philosophy. In particular, he developed a concept of mind or spirit that manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other. Examples of such contradictions include those between nature and freedom, and between immanence and transcendence. Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers (Strauss, Bauer, Feuerbach, T. H. Green, Marx, F. H. Bradley, Dewey, Sartre, Kung, Kojeve, Fukuyama, i ek, Brandom) and his detractors (Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Stirner, Peirce, Popper, Russell, Heidegger). His influential conceptions are of speculative logic or "dialectic," "absolute idealism," "Spirit," negativity, sublation (Aufhebung in German), the "Master/Slave" dialectic, "ethical li...
