critiques of metaphysics

[Hegemonicretribution]

I was wondering if anyone could offer alternative critiques of Hegel's metaphysics, other than the standard Kantian response. I will be doing a paper on this over the next few months and was wanting to broaden my knowledge in an area I am still ignorant.

Also I would love to hear anybody's replies to the standard Schelling/Spinoza concepts of the absolute and other wishy washy vagueness familiar with Hegel.

[gilhyle]

One of the main alternatives seem to me to be the Kierkegaard/Feuerbach critique which argues that the specific reality of (respectively) the individual and the species are lost in the schematic architecture of Hegel's system. In very summary form the argument, would be that no necessity attaches to the characterisation of the individual as, in essence, a negative within the dialectic of consciousness. This is merely an arbitrary assertion by Hegel, unsupported by any necessity within his dialectic. In variations, Adorno and Derrida can be seen to share this critique.

The other main one is Marx's, which is, ultimately, based on rejecting Feuerbach's critique.