habermas hegeles reading

Today, after years of denial and rejection of Hegel, particularly in the field of analytic philosophy, we see a great enthusiasm to Hegel’s thought, in the manner that Bernstein calls it return of the Hegel’s Geist. Our modern thinking has influenced too much by Kantian-Hegelian tradition. Hegel, although, is a kind of Kantian thinker, but his criticism of Kant's transcendental reason, makes special trend of thought which play a vital role in our contemporary thinking. Habermas, as a defender of modernity, inspired too much from Hegel. He draws contemporary thought as a detranscendentalization movement. He believed although Hegel started it, but, he himself, will not be belongs to it. In fact, Habermas, demands his contemporary Hegelians to test the implications of Hegel thought. While clarifying some important epistemological points, this article, in one of its major concerns cover the discussion of the amount of authority and responsibility of the individual will and its duty.