Hegel is the origin of most 19th-20th century end-themed philosophy.

Evidence

It is simply not enough to recall the names of Marx and Heidegger, or the themes of the ‘end of history’, of ‘absolute knowledge’, of the ‘dialectic’, of the ends of this and the ends of that, the ‘death of God’, the ‘death of Man’, etc. These terms and themes are Hegel’s terms, we always finish by finding Hegel at the very origin of all these thematized or schematized ends. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 73

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’ debates and to the common dismissal of Hegel as totalizing thinker. — connects to: Hegel remains a thinker of the future against current philosophical suspicion; For Hegel the future is subjectivity’s relation to the accidental. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 248
  • DEFINE: Establishes the interpretive target of the book: the charge that Hegel’s thought has no future.

Broader Connections