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neo-Hegelianism

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variants: or Neo-Hegelianism

Definition of neo-Hegelianism

1 : the philosophy of a school of chiefly British and American idealists following Hegel in his logical method and emphasizing organismic rather than atomistic conceptions
2 : one of a group of philosophical theories based on Hegelian principles advanced especially by German and Italian philosophers

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