This book brings together for the first time two philosophers from different traditions and
different centuries. While Wittgenstein was a focal point of 20th century analytic philosophy
it was Hegel's philosophy that brought the essential discourses of the 19th century together
and developed into the continental tradition in 20th century. This now-outdated conflict took
for granted Hegel's and Wittgenstein's opposing positions and is being replaced by a continuous
progression and differentiation of several authors schools and philosophical traditions. The
development is already evident in the tendency to identify a progression from a 'Kantian' to a
'Hegelian phase' of analytical philosophy as well as in the extension of right and left
Hegelian approaches by modern and postmodern concepts. Assessing the difference between
Wittgenstein and Hegel can outline intersections of contemporary thinking.
