 When Findlay was appointed to King’s College at the University of London in 1951, he found himself in competition with A. J. Ayer, the leading light at the University College branch of the same university. Ayer, still professing logical positivism, was attracting the best students and professors, so Findlay, by way of strategic contrast, made Hegel the Special Author in the curriculum at Kings. The choice proved surprisingly popular. Ayer generously responded with an offer to publish a book by Findlay on Hegel. The book, Hegel: A Re-examination (1958) written in a clear style, was for decades a life raft for those graduate students who despaired of ever understanding Hegel in the raw. 