Walter Kaufmann's "reinterpretation" of his work argues that he was strongly influenced by Goethe and Schiller and dismisses the view that he thought that Germany was the culmination of world history, a position others have read into his Philosophy of Right.  
Charles Taylor has written two books about this philosopher, one of which considers him "and modern society," and he was also the subject of Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution.  Walter Kaufmann's "reinterpretation" of his work argues that he was strongly influenced by Goethe and Schiller and dismisses the view that he thought that Germany was the culmination of world history, a position others have read into his Philosophy of Right.  FTP, name this thinker who wrote The Phenomenology of Spirit, whose notion of the dialectic proved highly influential.
Charles Taylor has written two books about this philosopher, one of which considers him "and modern society," and he was also the subject of Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution.  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel