 An important dimension of recent work is a closer specification of Bauer’s early interpretation of Hegel, especially through the recently-published 1828 Lectures on Aesthetics (Schimmenti 2020), and an investigation of Bauer’s relations to Karl Marx in 1839 to 1842 (Kangal 2020). The question of the politicization of art by conservative forces in Prussia after 1840, and the Left-Hegelian responses to this tendency, including Bauer’s, are examined in Schimmenti 2021.