what remained of this tumultuous period was its deep suspicion of any sense of meaning that had pretensions of universality.

“man would rather will nothingness than not will.”

his philosophical idealism

The radical claims of the nineteenth century seemed verified by the lived reality of the twentieth.

Granted, intense criticism of Hegel began as early as the decade following his 1831 death, most notably in the work of the Young Hegelians.

In the case of Kierkegaard, this research is more recent but of equal importance. For instance, see Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered,

while the meaning that we assert as true might be less than the full truth, our endless attempt to create such meaning reveals underlying truths about ourselves.

conservatism

it also served the developmental role of saving individual autonomy because it offered us a meaning by which to live