Abstract

This work is an attempt to rehabilitate Hegelian political philosophy from the various distortion and misrepresentation of it. The best way of rehabilitating Hegelianism adopted in this work is to show how Hegel is known to the contemporary readers of Hegel through the patchworks of quotations from the biased readers of Hegel and then to go back to Hegel himself. ;This work shows that Hegelianism in theory should be understood as a philosophical speculation of how to make concrete the principle of individual freedom and the rights of the subject; that Hegel's political philosophy seeks to establish the synthesis of the freedom of the individual and the normative authority of the state; that, in denouncing both anarchism and despotism in political practice, Hegel does not overlook the traditional liberal ideas of human rights, equality, freedom, and popular sovereignty; and that they are retained and absorbed in Hegel's theory of the state