2. The Critique of Totalitarianism (1944-1951)

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Part II: The Western Bloc - Liberalism as Antifascism (1945-1968)

  1. The Western Answer – and Its Indictment of Hegel
  2. The Standard: What Hegel’s Logic Actually Develops
  3. Friedrich August von Hayek – The Road to Serfdom (1944)
  4. Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
  5. Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
  6. Karl Jaspers – The Question of German Guilt and the Existential Dimension (1946)
  7. Isaiah Berlin – Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
  8. Closing Reflection on Chapter 2: The Critique of Totalitarianism – Legitimate Concerns, Wrong Target

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