id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6210 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Wikipedia .html text/html 18781 2649 65 Hegel has influenced many thinkers and writers whose own positions vary widely.[36] For example, "the roots of post-structuralism and its unifying basis lies, in large part, in a general opposition not to the philosophical tradition tout court but specifically to the Hegelian tradition" dominating philosophy in the twentieth century prior to post-structuralism.[37] Paul Tillich wrote that the historical dialectical thought of Hegel "has influenced world history more profoundly than any other structural analysis."[38] Karl Barth described Hegel as a "Protestant Aquinas"[39] while Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote that "all the great philosophical ideas of the past century—the philosophies of Marx and Nietzsche, phenomenology, German existentialism, and psychoanalysis—had their beginnings in Hegel."[40] The direct and indirect influence of Kojève's lectures and writings (on The Phenomenology of Spirit in particular) mean that it is not possible to understand most French philosophers from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jacques Derrida without understanding Hegel.[135] American neoconservative political theorist Francis Fukuyama's controversial book The End of History and the Last Man (1992) was heavily influenced by Kojève.[136] The Swiss theologian Hans Küng has also advanced contemporary Hegelian scholarship.[citation needed] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6210.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6210.txt