The Trap and the Unavoidable. Nietzsche and Hegel on the Politics of History

Abstract

This article explores Nietzsche and Hegel’s philosophies of history, aiming to defend the latter from the powerful and challenging critiques of the first. It does so by analyzing the strengths and also the weaknesses of both positions, and concludes that Nietzsche’s rebuke of Hegelianism is, despite some interesting and fertile insights, hasty and, up to a certain  point, even shallow.