ABSTRACT
The title, The Future of Hegel, can be read as an affirmation, as if anticipating a positive response to the question: Does Hegel have a future? At the end of the twentieth century, this question must inevitably be asked. While philosophy, willingly celebrating the greatness of Hegel, acknowledges how much it is in his debt, speculative idealism has been suspected of totalization, and even of having totalitarian designs. If it has not been entirely repudiated, it has at the very least been kept at a distance. It is impossible to consider Hegel’s future today as something already guaranteed, established and recognized. This future itself is still to come. It remains to be demonstrated and discovered. Such a demonstration is what the present work intends to provide.
