Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
Running through some of the most beloved texts in Western political philosophy. They are loved for their ingenuity and beauty. But they are respected and believed for their screeching authoritarianism. You might see episodes on...Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau. Hegel, Nietzsche, Zizek, Pettit, etc.
Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
Martin Heidegger: Our Philosophical Führer
He was [one of] the most influential philosopher[s] of the 20th century (the golden age of totalitarianism) and a real, genuine, bona fide Nazi.
Somehow I blanked on the fact that the letters I'm quoting are to his brother Fritz Heidegger.
The defense of Hegel I refer to here is by Susanna Lindberg in the volume *On Hegel's Philosophy of Right* (Heidegger's lecture notes from 1934-35).
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/reviews/980503.03rortyt.html