1848+: Last and First Men

Here’s a short Amazon review I did, a long time ago, of an important book:
Hegel Myths and Legends
by Jon Stewart

5.0 out of 5 stars The ‘end of history’ and a Hegel Myth, October 16, 2001
By John Landon “nemonemini”
This fascinating book addresses, and counters, the many false interpretations of Hegel that have grown up from the start of his system to the present day. To be sure, these defenses, in the midst of much ‘setting the record straight’, might be challenged as partisan or excessively one-sided themselves, yet the fact remains that many attacks on Hegel have failed to grasp the nature of his thinking. This is not even a ‘pro-Hegel’ statement, being of equal relevance to those critics of Hegel who end up thrashing in the labyrinthine subtleties of his influence, and dialectical logic.
This works both ways, as Hegel is pressed into the service of ideology by his friends. Worth the price of the book twice over is the series and expose on the ‘end of history’ mythology now liberal propaganda a la Fukuyama. This material arriving via Koyre and Kojeve with assistant packaging by Alan Bloom constitutes the core Hegel phantom in State Department piece de resistance that graced the end of the Cold War. It is a good example of the Hegel you thought you knew, but definitely didn’t.

The hopeless confusion of the ‘end of history’ theme, and its abuse, is examined in this book.