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Since the publication of J. N. Findlay's Hegel: A Re-examination in 1958 (paperback edition, 1962), there has been a remarkable outpouring of Hegel scholarship in English. Undoubtedly there are a number of factors responsible for this resurgence of interest, but Professor Findlay's efforts here and on a number of other fronts, before and especially after the appearance of his re-examination, surely must be placed near the top of any list of such factors. It is noteworthy, for example, that for nearly a decade preceding his exposition, only two books on Hegel appeared in English,² while the ten years since have witnessed the publication of some thirty volumes, including several new translations, four comprehensive reinterpretations, and a number of monographs and studies of Hegel's influence. While it has since become the fashion among writers on Hegel to begin by shattering negative Hegel legends, Findlay was the first to do so effectively, and I think few of us are fully aware of how instrumental his work has been in bringing the objective study of Hegel's thought once more to the fore in English-speaking countries.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2434-1_3

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