ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines and excavates the nineteenth- and twentieth-century origins of the positivist revolt against idealist philosophy and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's legacy. It covers political science's positivist turn away from philosophical tradition in the twentieth century. The impact had on political theory is critically examined through the lens of its revisionist reception and representations of Hegel's political thought. The book presents an in-depth reading of the continuity of Hegel's metaphysical and political thought in the context of the history of ideas. It illuminates the value and inherence of their interdependence in his thought against the majority opinion of mainstream Anglo-American Hegel scholarship and commentary. Finally, the book presents a case for the reassessment of contemporary political theory and its reengagement with philosophical tradition and its conceptual potentials.
