RE DK CURRENT POST RE HEGEL

The dumbfounding thing about Hegel, not just that he was the direct ancestor of Marx, is that, similarly to Whitehead's remark about the history of Western philosophy being a series of footnotes to Plato, 19th 20th and 21st century history of philosophy, in the West, the only place it counts, any direction one turns, is also a series of footnotes to Hegel, although it might be truer to say to Kant and Hegel together. There were Left and Right Hegelians. 

Hegel was an extraordinarily powerful influence on such movements as romanticism (especially what sprang from Rousseau), phenomenology, existentialism, modern and postmodernism, nationalism, fascism, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, analytic philosophy including mathematical philosophy and logic, philosophy of history, philosophy of social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, economics, the list goes on. There is also a straight line down lineages to folks like Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Sartre, Nietzsche, Russell, Vienna Circle, etc. 

One can even see a struggle between Left and Right Hegelianism play out in the writings of people such as Ayn Rand, a late, secular, Right Hegelian, of sorts, really.