This is a study of the rise of Hegelian thought in the nineteenth century.

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Philosophy and Cultural Integration: Hegel in Context: 1. The origins of the Hegelian project: tensions in the father's world; 2. Revolution and Romanticism: the generational context of Hegel's ideology of cultural integration; 3. The reconciliation of Reason and reality: Hegel's differentiation from Romanticism; Part II. The Historical Appropriation of the Absolute: Unity and Diversity in the Hegelian School, 1805-1831: 4. Hegel and Hegelianism: disciples and sympathisers in the formation of the Hegelian school; 5. Hegelian politics during the Restoration: accommodation, critique, and historical transcendence; 6. Christian religion and Hegelian philosophy during the Restoration: accommodation, critique, and historical transcendence; Part III. The Reduction of the Absolute to 'Man': The Division of the School and the Emergence of the Hegelian Left, 1830-1841: 7. Right, centre, and left: the division of the Hegelian school in the 1830s; 8. Strauss and the principle of immanence; 9. Bruno Bauer and the reduction of absolute spirit to human self-consciousness; 10. Feuerbach and the reduction of absolute spirit to human 'species being'; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.