Numerous are the witnesses now coming forward in favor of a revision of the trial in dogmatism which Hegelian philosophy has had to endure. Hegel's Logic was the first accused in this trial. Benedetto Croce noted in his time that British Idealism had done Hegel a disservice by presenting Hegel's Logic as a systematic worldview and a universal method of knowledge. The philosophies of history that flourished at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as one version of Marxism – that which finds expression in Friedrich Engels' Dialectic of Nature – played a similar role. A romantic description of universal laws common to nature, history, and thought was attributed to a thinker who adamantly opposed philosophical romanticism. As a result, the mere appeal to common sense all too often sufficed to dismiss Hegel's philosophy and, in particular, Hegel's Logic.

Today, however, the situation is different. In his Introduction to the issue of Hegel-Studien devoted to “The Science of Logic and the Logic of Reflection,” Dieter Henrich writes: