[Regular-Former]

I think one problem you and the author are ignoring is the fact that Hegel's (un-)popularity varied at different times from country to country.

In Germany, for instance, Hegel was immensely popular just in the 1830s and 1840s, but soon became old-fashioned. This is visible in Marx's works: in his writings from the 1840s he's very critical of Hegel, while in his later texts became much more reverential, as to oppose the prevailing bourgeois mentality (in the preface of Capital, he complains it was fashionable to treat Hegel as a "dead dog" [1]).

But this is just Germany. In US & UK Hegel became popular only during the end of the XIX century (with the British Idealists and the St. Louis Hegelians). In Italy, his popularity dates to the early XX century (with Croce and Gentile). And in France I think he was never really popular.

[1]: https://www.marxists.org/subject/dialectics/marx-engels/capi...

[pasabagi]

To an extent, I agree: Hegel is subject to the normal waxing and waning of intellectual trends. On the other hand, I think really seismic shifts in faculty are generally driven by outside pressure - and the largest source of pressure, historically, has been political witch-hunting, closely followed by marketization.