As is well known analytic philosophy's narrative holds that it began in a reaction against "Hegelian thought," specifically, the neo-Hegelianism of late 19th century Britain. Russell and Moore overthrew the doctrines of internal relations, of the falsehood of the partial and the truth only of the whole, and of the fundamentally spiritual nature of the world. Most important, they brought into philosophy the new logic that had revolutionized a discipline that hadn't changed significantly since Aristotle invented it.

As we know Russell particularly promulgated a 'shadow Hegel,' a distorted, even mythical image that justified his philosophical patricide, and he sold it effectively for the rest of his life. After the Cambridge Two slew the Hegelian father and liberated philosophy from his oppressive regime, Hegel and Absolute Idealism became taboo, mentionable only with disgust, scorn, and ritualistic excoriation.

The 'shadow Hegel', of course, is the British Hegelians, whose alleged idealistic excesses gave rise to ‘analytic philosophy. The disgust, scorn and contempt then ignored the way that Continental European philosophy over the last two centuries has been so many different responses to Hegel.