This is a study of the rise of Hegelian thought in the nineteenth century.This is a study of the rise of Hegelian thought throughout the intellectual world and in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the history and reconstruction of Hegelian ideology and how that relates to the disintegration of religious experience and patterns of hope and disillusionment.This is a study of the rise of Hegelian thought throughout the intellectual world and in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the history and reconstruction of Hegelian ideology and how that relates to the disintegration of religious experience and patterns of hope and disillusionment.This is a study of the rise of Hegelian thought throughout the intellectual world and in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century. The book has three interrelated purposes. First, it constitutes the first synthetic description and comprehensive reconstruction of the historical genesis and humanist transformation of Hegelian ideology. Secondly, the study addresses the problem of recurrent patterns of hope and disillusionment in the successive phases of dialectical thought. Finally, the book is concerned with ideological responses to the experience of communal and religious disintegration.Preface; Introduction; Part I. Philosophy and Cultural Integration: Hegel in Context: 1. The origins of the Hegelian project: tensions in the father's world; 2. Revolution and Romanticism: the generational context of Hegel's ideology of cultural integration; 3. The reconciliation of Reason and reality: Hegel's differentiation from Romanticism; Part II. The Historical Appropriation of the Absolute: Unity and Diversity in the Hegelian School, 18051831: 4. Hegel and Hegelianism: disciples and sympathisers in the formation of the Hegelian school; 5. Hegelian politics during the Restoration: accommodation, critique, and historical transcendence; 6. Christian religion and Hegelian phillóú