According to an old platitude, Hegel had a tremendous impact on the history of ideas, whereas Schelling was, when all is said and done, a rather minor figure. By exploring Schelling’s relationship to Hegel, I will show that this is just plain false. Hegel’s philosophical impact is not as monolithic as it may initially seem. The presence of Schelling can be detected in the reception of Hegel’s system and the attempts to adapt or move beyond it that paved the way for contemporary thought in figures such as Kierkegaard, Marx, and Engels. Furthermore, Schelling still has philosophical resources to offer us today. To make this case, I will focus on a singular episode in Schelling’s career. In 1841, Schelling came to Berlin to take over Hegel’s former Chair. The highlight of his inaugural lectures, delivered to an immensely large audience comprising the best minds of the day, was a critiqueCritique/criticismof Hegel of Hegel intended to demolish the very foundations upon which the latter’s philosophy—understood as the epitome of rationalistRationalism/rationalist system buildingSystem(s)building—stood, whereupon a new era of philosophy emphasizing life as lived, contingency, and the primacy of experience would be ushered in. In this regard, Schelling won against Hegel. However, before examining Schelling’s critique of Hegel in Sect. 2 and its legacy in Sect. 3, we must first understand its context in Sect. 1. For not only were the circumstances surrounding his academic appointment complex and extravagant, but they also enable us to comprehend why his philosophical impact was, to an unwarranted degree, for a long time mainly forgotten. After surveying the context, content, and legacy of Schelling’s critiqueCritique/criticismof Hegel of Hegel, we can then in Sect. 4 broach the theme of whether Schelling’s critique remains relevant to some current trends in philosophy, specifically to various neo-HegelianismsHegelianism/Hegelian(s)neo- such as those of ŽižekNeo-HegelianismŽižek, Slavoj, McDowellNeo-HegelianismMcDowell, John, and BrandomNeo-HegelianismBrandom, Robert.