neo-Hegelianadj.n.

1885 W. James Let. 13 Aug. (1920) I. 254 Why don't you have a special ‘Neo-Hegelian Department’ in ‘Mind’,..which educated readers skip?

1921 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 15 368 Unlike the old, unchangeable, inflexible law of nature, the neo-Hegelian law of nature is the active agency in the future development and ultimate attainment of cultural ideals.

1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 579/1 As a representative of the later phase of the neo-Hegelian school of British idealistic philosophy, Mackenzie invites comparison..with his early friend M^cTaggart.

1970 Slavic Rev. 29 180 Marxist traditions are being mingled with ideas..from a variety of non-Marxian sources—phenomenology and existential philosophy, neo-Hegelian historicism, the analytical school.

1994 M. Gauvreau in W. Klempa Burning Bush & Few Acres of Snow (1994) 46 ‘Historical theology’..provided an intellectually respectable alternative to..both neo-Hegelian idealism and the more radical higher criticism emanating from Germany.

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 142 The English neo-Hegelians convey the impression that in order to reach a metaphysical, or..spiritual, Idealism, it is at least necessary to deny the reality of ‘things-in-themselves’.

1897 J. M. Baldwin Social & Ethical Interpr. in Mental Develop. 502 It is with the name of Hegel, and with the Neo-Hegelians that this type of social theory is associated.

1928 London Aphrodite Aug. 6 This analysis is carried on so as to involve anyone at all who admits Time as a philosophic symbol, whether he be an academic neo-Hegelian like Bosanquet, or an intelligent one like Croce.

1957 Polit. Sci. Q. 72 5 A return to the Utilitarian modest outlook, before the neo-Hegelians took over, would be beneficial.

1989 Third Text Summer 35 The youngest poets were accused of being neo-Hegelians by the dogmatists.