I have been reading Konrad Heiden’s Der Fuehrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power, published in 1944. Heiden was a German journalist who fled Germany in 1934, and wrote several books on National Socialism and Hitler. It’s an amazing book filled with social history, and that makes it a bit ponderous (it’s the German, I think), but his “interlude” chapter on 19th century German intellectual and political history has the best two-page explanation of Hegelianism I’ve ever come across. Most of the book focuses on the 1920s and very early 1930s, given that Heiden fled Germany after Hitler came to power, that … Continue reading Statolatry Described