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‘[Karl Popper’s] discussion of Hegel [in The Open Society and Its Enemies] is a travesty of what needs to be said.’
From an endnote by Friedrich

From the Preface (by Carl J. Friedrich):

Someone who knows my other work may well be surprised to find me dealing with Hegel. For the philosophy of Hegel has always seemed to me fundamentally wrong. Perhaps this very prejudice is responsible for my undertaking this re-evaluations.

...the National Socialist dictatorship and more particularly by Hitler...it soon became the fashion to talk about Hegel as if he had practically written Mein Kampf.’

Reading this mostly for the Preface and the Introduction by Carl J. Friedrich (around 60 pages in total).

‘Anyone who undertakes to deal with Hegel in pragmatic, positivistic America today [1953] is running the risk of being immediately set down as a hopeless obscurantist.
...Hegel remained “in the doghouse”, a victim of the “revolt against idealism” and of the antagonism to all things German caused by...