@iitalics@octodon.social i think, charitably, hegel is admired because he cracked open the door for doing this, which marx (who was originally a hegelian and later a hegelian critic) pushed open further (alongside nietzsche and freud), which paved the way for the likes of foucalt, deleuze, and derrida, which then enabled the likes of judith butler and jasbir puar…

UNcharitably, hegel is liked because he is seen as the last philosopher BEFORE continental philosophy went off the deep end with all this other stuff, which makes him the culmination of western philosophy to a certain mindset, unless you want to count american “philosophies” like effective altruism or whatever