Hegel's philosophy is current. It will be said that it has always been like that of any other thinker who rose to the speculative to reflect on the issues of concern (if not anguish) for human beings. In part this is true, but Hegel has a disturbing relevance at a time saturated with progressive rhetoric, critical of the hegemonic way of life, rabidly opposed to the obvious injustices and prone to the "inclusion of the other", but, paradoxically, vapid innocuous to locate the foundation of evils. Hegel's is such a powerful thought that it continues to show the contradictions of the most diverse positions that arrogantly have given it as anachronistic and surpassed. Hegel's strategy is to show that the concepts and categories that are used to empirically register what appears as "reality" are not really out there but in the very process of thinking, and that it does not float in the ai...read more