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Hegelianism

Hegelianism

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A way of thinking that follows the ideas of the German thinker Hegel
  • noun
  • /həˈɡeɪliənˌɪzəm/
  • Formal
: hegelianismo
  • Hegel's death in 1831 inevitably ushered in a new and very different era in the history of Hegelianism.

Examples

  • Many philosophers today study Hegelianism to understand its impact on modern thought.

  • Their work, as well as Wellhausen's, was not an exercise in Hegelianism, but rather an attempt to find explanations for a number of problems posed by a careful reading of the Old Testament.

    Academic text (1991)
  • This is one way of interpreting Hegelianism.

    Academic text (1997)
  • This is another way of interpreting Hegelianism.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The revolts against Hegelianism increased the confusion, since they destroyed, as far as in them lay, the very possibility of theory.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Cieszkowski brought to Hegelianism a new dialectic of history, a new variant of the three ages of man.

    Blog text (5)
  • Either Darwinianism or Hegelianism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, these things are total systems.

  • Hegelianism, as a perfectly historical idealism, is a perfectly consistent atheism.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The thought of Alexandre Kojeve has been revived to correct some of the details of Marx's Hegelianism to establish its truth.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The great merit of Kojève's wonderfully consistent Hegelianism is that it allowed him to see the necessity of this return clearly and unequivocally.

    Academic text (1996)

Surface Forms

Hegelianism singular
Hegelianisms plural

Morphology

Hegelianism = Hegelian (transparent) = Hegel + ian + ism

Formed from the adjective 'Hegelian' with the productive noun-forming suffix '-ism' denoting a system or doctrine, so the relation is clear.

Etymology

The word Hegelianism is named after the German thinker Hegel and the ending -ism, which means a 'belief' or 'system' and appears in words like capitalism and Buddhism. So Hegelianism means the system of ideas or school that follows Hegel's thinking.