If this crude characterization bears any resemblance to the reception of the work over the years, then any attempt at reactualization is faced right at the outset with the choice between two alternatives: we must either criticize the two objections directly and show them up as mere misunderstandings through a new interpretation of the Philosophy of Right, or we must criticize them indirectly by demonstrating their irrelevance to any really productive reappropriation of the treatise