2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
James Billington's 1980 history of revolutionary ideology from the Romantic era to the early 20th century — arguing that modern revolutionary movements drew on a quasi-religious faith in secular salvation through historical transformation.
The Führerprinzip crystallized the Nazi regime’s demand that all authority flow from a single, infallible leader, providing a doctrinal justification for absolute obedience during the Third Reich.