Editing Absolute idealism (section)

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Absolute idealism has greatly altered the philosophical landscape. This influence is mostly felt in the strong opposition it engendered. Both [[logical positivism]] and [[analytic philosophy]] grew out of a rebellion against Hegelianism prevalent in England during the 19th century.<ref name="Searle03P1">
"Without exception, the best philosophy departments in the United States are dominated by analytic philosophy, and among the leading philosophers in the United States, all but a tiny handful would be classified as analytic philosophers. Practitioners of types of philosophizing that are not in the analytic tradition—such as phenomenology, classical pragmatism, [[existentialism]], or [[Marxism]]—feel it necessary to define their position in relation to analytic philosophy." [[John Searle]] (2003) ''Contemporary Philosophy in the United States'' in N. Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James (eds.), ''The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy'', 2nd ed., (Blackwell, 2003), p. 1.</ref> Continental [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], [[existentialism]], and [[postmodernism]] also seek to 'free themselves from Hegel's thought'. 

[[Geoffrey Warnock]], writing after the demise of absolute idealism as a philosophical movement in Britain, wrote that the absolute idealists were motivated by emotional concerns, which he says Bradley and McTaggart admitted. He also criticized them for vagueness and overreliance on rhetoric as opposed to argument, he added that in the writings of some "solemnity and unclarity seem to rise not seldom to the pitch of actual fraud".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Warnock |first1=Geoffrey |title=English Philosophy since 1900 |date=1969 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=3-5}}</ref>

[[Martin Heidegger]], one of the leading figures of [[Continental philosophy]] in the 20th century, sought to distance himself from Hegel's work. One of Heidegger's philosophical themes in ''[[Being and Time]]'' was "overcoming metaphysics," aiming to distinguish his book from Hegelian tracts. After the 1927 publication, Heidegger's "early dismissal of them [German idealists] gives way to ever-mounting respect and critical engagement." He continued to compare and contrast his philosophy with Absolute idealism, principally due to critical comments that certain elements of this school of thought anticipated Heideggerian notions of "overcoming metaphysics."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dahlstrom |first1=Daniel |title=Heidegger and German Idealism |journal=A Companion to Heidegger |date=2008 |pages=65–79}}</ref>