Hegelianism is the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel in which reality has a conceptual structure. Pure opinion are not subjectively applied to sense-impressions but rather things represent for actualizing their a priori pure concept. The concept of the concept is called the notion by Hegel.
Hegel's philosophy became asked outside Germany from the 1820s onwards, in addition to Hegelian schools developed in northern Europe, Italy, France, Eastern Europe, America and Britain. These schools are collectively known as post-Hegelian philosophy, post-Hegelian idealism or simply post-Hegelianism.
Hegel's immediate followers in Germany are generally shared into the "Right Hegelians" and the "Left Hegelians" the latter also spoke to as the "Young Hegelians".
The Rightists developed his philosophy along ordering which they considered to be in accordance with Christian theology. They talked Johann Philipp Gabler, Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, and Johann Eduard Erdmann.
The Leftists accentuated the anti-Christian tendencies of Hegel's system and developed schools of materialism, socialism, rationalism, and pantheism. They included Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Bruno Bauer, and David Strauss.
In Britain, Hegelianism was represented during the nineteenth century by, and largely overlapped, the British Idealist school of James Hutchison Stirling, Thomas Hill Green, William Wallace, John Caird, Edward Caird, Richard Lewis Nettleship, F. H. Bradley, and J. M. E. McTaggart.
In Denmark, Hegelianism was represented by Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Lassen Martensen from the 1820s to the 1850s.
In mid-19th century Italy, Hegelianism was represented by Bertrando Spaventa.
Hegelianism in North America was represented by Friedrich August Rauch and William T. Harris, as alive as the St. Louis Hegelians. In its nearly recent name it seems to do its inspiration from Thomas Hill Green, and whatever influence it exerts is opposed to the prevalent pragmatic tendency.
In Poland, Hegelianism was represented by Karol Libelt, August Cieszkowski and Józef Kremer.
Benedetto Croce and Étienne Vacherot were the leading Hegelians towards the end of the nineteenth century in Italy and France, respectively. Among Catholic philosophers who were influenced by Hegel the nearly prominent were Georg Hermes and Anton Günther.
Hegelianism also inspired Giovanni Gentile's philosophy of actual idealism and fascism, the concept that people are motivated by ideas and that social modify is brought by the leaders.
Hegelianism spread to Imperial Russia through St. Petersburg in the 1840s, and was – as other intellectual waves were – considered an absolute truth among its intelligentsia until the arrival of Darwinism in the 1860s.
Continental philosopher Slavoj Žižek is considered to be a contemporary post-Hegelian philosopher.
Analytic philosopher Robert Brandom offered a Hegelian phase in analytic philosophy see Pittsburgh School / analytic Hegelianism.