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| fukuyama francis the end of history: The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama, 2006-03 Enhanced by a new afterword dealing with the post-September 11th world, a provocative exploration of issues of human society and destiny answers such questions as, is there a direction to human history? does history have an end? and where are we now? Reprint. 25,00 first printing. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Francis Fukuyama and the End of History Howard Williams, E Gwynn Matthews, David Sullivan, 2016-07-20 Fukuyama’s concept of the End of History has been one of the most widely debated theories of international politics since the end of the Cold War. This book discusses Fukuyama’s claim that liberal democracy alone is able to satisfy the human aspiration for freedom and dignity, and explores the way in which his thinking is part of a philosophical tradition which includes Kant, Hegel and Marx. Two new chapters in this second edition discuss the ways in which Fukuyama’s thinking has developed – they include his celebrated and controversial criticism of neoconservatism and his complex intellectual relationship to Samuel Huntington, whose Clash of Civilization thesis he rejects but whose notion of political decay is central to his more recent work. The authors here argue that Fukuyama’s continuing fundamental contributions to debates concerning the spread of democracy and threat of global terror mark him out as one of the most important thinkers of the twenty-first century. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: After the End of History Mathilde Fasting, 2021 Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thought |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The End of the End of History Alex Hochuli, George Hoare, 2021-06-25 'It's been a long time since a text was so useful in helping me think through our present moment and my role within it. The End of The End of History is a clear, powerful and panoramic analysis of our world at the dawn of the 2020s.' Vincent Bevins, author, The Jakarta Method The “End of History” is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the “final form of human government” has been exposed as bluster: the old order is crumbling before our eyes. Angry anti-politics have arisen to threaten political establishments across the world. Elites have fallen into hysteria, blaming voters, “populism”, Putin, Facebook... anyone but themselves. They are suffering from Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome. Emerging from four years of interviews and debates on the popular global politics podcast Aufhebunga Bunga, The End of the End of History examines how the political consequences of the 2008 financial crisis have come home to roost. If Trump and Brexit shattered the liberal-democratic consensus in 2016, then the global pandemic of 2020 put a final end to the “End of History”. Politics is back, but it's stranger than ever. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Origins of Political Order Francis Fukuyama, 2011-05-12 Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Liberal Democracy as the End of History Christopher Hughes, 2012-02-20 Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas. The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyama’s thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about a universal and teleological history; a universal human nature; or an autonomous individual? It addresses whether postmodern theories - concerning the movement of time, what it means to be human, and what it means to be an individual/subject - can be accommodated within a theory of a history that ends in liberal democracy. The author argues that incorporating elements of postmodern thought into Fukuyama’s theory makes it possible to produce a stronger and more compelling account of the theory that liberal democracy is the end of history. The result of this is to underpin Fukuyama’s theory with a more complex understanding of the movement of time, the human and the individual, and to show that postmodern concepts can, paradoxically, be used to strengthen Fukuyama’s theory that the end of history is liberal democracy. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, postmodernism and the work of Francis Fukuyama. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Identity Francis Fukuyama, 2018-09-11 The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people,” who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy. Identity is an urgent and necessary book—a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: After History? Timothy Burns, 1994 In the euphoric aftermath of 1989's history-making events, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union, reviewers heralded Francis Fukuyama's national bestseller The End of History and the Last Man as 'the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world.' In After History?, 13 critics from across the political spectrum offer provocative responses to Fukuyama's bold declaration that democracy and capitalism have triumphed over totalitarianism and socialism. Fukuyama responds directly to his critics in a concluding chapter. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: State Building Francis Fukuyama, 2017-06-15 Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Have We Reached the End of History? Francis Fukuyama, Rand Corporation, 1989 Recent developments in countries such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China seem to suggest that the 20th century may end where it started--not with an end of ideology or a convergence between capitalism and socialism, but with the victory of economic and political liberalism. This paper suggests that we may be witnessing not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period in postwar history, but the end of history--that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. The victory of liberalism has occurred primarily in the realm of ideas or consciousness and is as yet incomplete in the real or material world, but the author suggests that there are reasons to believe that the ideal will govern the material world in the long run. To explain this, he considers some theoretical issues about the nature of historical change, including the philosophy of Hegel, who originated the idea of the end of history.--Rand abstracts |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Political Order and Political Decay Francis Fukuyama, 2014-09-30 The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition. In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two. Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: How Change Happens Duncan Green, 2016 DLP, Developmental Leadership Program; Australian Aid; Oxfam. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: "The End of History?" Francis Fukuyama, 1989 |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Return of History Jennifer Welsh, 2016-09-17 In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics. In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural and political evolution, and the path toward a more peaceful world. But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction, history has returned: arbitrary executions, attempts to annihilate ethnic and religious minorities, the starvation of besieged populations, invasion and annexation of territory, and the mass movement of refugees and displaced persons. It has also witnessed cracks and cleavages within Western liberal democracies as a result of deepening economic inequality. The Return of History argues that our own liberal democratic society was not inevitable, but that we must all, as individual citizens, take a more active role in its preservation and growth. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: After the End of History Samuel Cohen, 2009-10-01 In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection. Exploring the ways ideas about paradise and pastoral, difference and exclusion, innocence and righteousness, triumph and trauma deform the stories Americans tell themselves about their nation’s past, After the End of History challenges us to reconsider these works in a new light, offering fresh, insightful readings of what are destined to be classic works of literature. At the same time, Cohen enters into the theoretical discussion about postmodern historical understanding. Throwing his hat in the ring with force and style, he confronts not only Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalist response to the fall of the Soviet Union but also the other literary and political “end of history” claims put forth by such theorists as Fredric Jameson and Walter Benn Michaels. In a straightforward, affecting style, After the End of History offers us a new vision for the capabilities and confines of contemporary fiction. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Blindside Francis Fukuyama, 2008-01-27 A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises—like the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being fired—have caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades. September 11 is only the most obvious recent example among many unforeseen events that have changed, even redefined our lives. We have every reason to expect more such events in future. Several kinds of unanticipated scenarios—particularly those of low probability and high impact—have the potential to escalate into systemic crises. Even positive surprises can be major policy challenges. Anticipating and managing low-probability events is a critically important challenge to contemporary policymakers, who increasingly recognize that they lack the analytical tools to do so. Developing such tools is the focus of this insightful and perceptive volume, edited by renowned author Francis Fukuyama and sponsored by The American Interest magazine. Bl indside is organized into four main sections. Thinking about Strategic Surprise addresses the psychological and institutional obstacles that prevent leaders from planning for low-probability tragedies and allocating the necessary resources to deal with them. The following two sections pinpoint the failures—institutional as well as personal—that allowed key historical events to take leaders by surprise, and examine the philosophies and methodologies of forecasting. In Pollyana vs. Cassandra, for example, James Kurth and Gregg Easterbrook debate the future state of the world going forward. Mitchell Waldrop explores why technology forecasting is so poor and why that is likely to remain the case. In the book's final section, What Could Be, internationally renowned authorities discuss low probability, high-impact contingencies in their area of expertise. For example, Scott Barrett looks at emerging infectious diseases, while Gal Luft and Anne Korin discuss energy security. How can we avoid |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama, 2017-06-15 Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion years ago, or the emergence of mankind 10 million years ago, people will be able to choose their children's' sex, height, colour, personality traits and intelligence. It will even be possible to create 'superhumans' by mixing human genes with those of other animals for extra strength or longevity. But is this desirable? What are the moral and political consequences? Will it mean anything to talk about 'human nature' any more? Is this the end of human beings? Our Posthuman Future is a passionate analysis of the greatest political and moral problem ever to face the human race. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Power in Ideas Kirsten Adams, Daniel Kreiss, 2021-05-13 This Element develops an analytical framework for understanding the role of ideas in political life and communication. Power in Ideas argues that the empirical study of ideas should combine interpretive approaches to derive meaning and understand influence with quantitative analysis to help determine the reach, spread, and impact of ideas. This Element illustrates this approach through three case studies: the idea of reparations in Ta-Nehisi Coates's “The Case for Reparations,” the idea of free expression in Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook policy speech at Georgetown University, and the idea of universal basic income in Andrew Yang's “Freedom Dividend.” Power in Ideas traces the landscapes and spheres within which these ideas emerged and were articulated, the ways they were encoded in discourse, the fields they traveled across, and how they became powerful. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Trust Francis Fukuyama, 1995 The bestselling author of The End of History explains the social principles of economic life and tells readers what they need to know to win the coming struggle for global economic dominance. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Great Disruption Francis Fukuyama, 2017-06-15 Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in society's moral values, there has been a similar Great Disruption during the last half of the twentieth century. In the last 50 years the developed world has made the shift from industrial to information society; knowledge has replaced mass production as the basis for wealth, power and social intercourse. This change, for all its benefits, has led to increasing crime, massive changes is fertility and family structure, decreasing levels of trust and the triumph of individualism over community. But Fukuyama claims that a new social order is already under construction. This he maintains, cannot be imposed by governments or organised religion. Instead he argues that human beings are biologically driven to establish moral values, and have unique capabilities for reasoning their over the long run to spontaneous order. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today Sophie Ward, 2016-10-26 Shakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English language, yet education reform in the English-speaking world is informed primarily by the ‘market order’, rather than the kind of humanism we might associate with Shakespeare. By considering Shakespeare’s dramatisation of the principles that inform neoliberalism, this book makes an important contribution to the debate on the moral failure of the market mechanism in schools and higher education systems that have adopted neoliberal policy. The utility of Shakespeare’s plays as a means to explore our present socio-economic system has long been acknowledged. As a Renaissance playwright located at the junction between feudalism and capitalism, Shakespeare was uniquely positioned to reflect upon the nascent market order. As a result, this book utilises six of his plays to assess the impact of neoliberalism on education. Drawing from examples of education policy from the UK and North America, it demonstrates that the alleged innovation of the market order is premised upon ideas that are rejected by Shakespeare, and it advocates Shakespeare’s humanism as a corrective to the failings of neoliberal education policy. Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today will be of key interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of education policy and politics, educational reform, social and economic theory, English literature and Shakespeare. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Alexandre Kojève, 1980 Of the first six chapters of the Phenomenology of the spirit -- Summary of the course in 1937-1938 -- Philosophy and wisdom -- A note on eternity, time, and the concept -- Interpretation of the third part of chapter VIII -- A dialectic of the real and the phenomenological method in Hegel. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: How Democracy Ends David Runciman, 2018-06-05 How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get? In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable -- a twenty-first-century vision of the end of democracy, and whether its collapse might allow us to move forward to something better. A provocative book by a major political philosopher, How Democracy Ends asks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Beginning of History Massimo De Angelis, 2007 Analyses new political economy theory and its role in bringing about radical social change |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Carbon Trading in China Alex Lo, 2016-04-29 This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Moon By Whale Light Diane Ackerman, 2011-05-18 In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Roots of American Order Russell Kirk, 2023-07-18 What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk identifies the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called a tale of five cities: Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America in the twenty-first century, Russell Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassed. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: After the End of History Mathilde Fasting, 2021-05-03 A series of in-depth interviews between Francis Fukuyama and editor Mathilde Fasting, After the End of History grants unprecedented access to one of the greatest political minds of our time. Drawing on his work on identity, biotechnology, and political order, Fukuyama provides essential insight into the threats our world faces today. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Identity Francis Fukuyama, 2019-09-05 Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of open white supremacy to our politics. In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: A Future Perfect John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge, 2003-03-11 A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture? What will happen to individual careers? Gathering evidence worldwide, from the shantytowns of São Paolo to the boardrooms of General Electric, from the troubled Russia-Estonia border to the booming San Fernando Valley sex industry, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge deliver an illuminating tour of the global economy and a fascinating assessment of its potential impact. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Life Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 1997 In her introduction to this collection, Tymieniecka presents her phenomenology of life - the leitmotif of the three-volume anniversary publication of Analecta Husserliana - as something that stands out from preceding historical attempts to investigate life in an 'integral' or 'scientific' way. After an incubation lasting throughout the 2000 years of Occidental philosophy, this scientific phenomenology/philosophy of life at last uncovers the entire area of the 'inner workings of Nature', exposing the way in which the 'sufficient reason' and the 'ground' of beingness as such crystallise out of the 'onto poietic' process. This onto-poietic process, continuing as it does in the human creative condition, also reveals the authentic genius of the works of the human spirit. This new and original philosophy, free of fallacious simplifications, speculations and reductionism, opens up a basic starting point for all philosophy. Life, 'the theme of our times', at last receives a profound philosophical treatment. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The End of Order Francis Fukuyama, 1997 |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Falling Behind Francis Fukuyama, 2008-08-11 In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and the debate remains a hot one. In Falling Behind, Francis Fukuyama gathers together some of the world's leading scholars on the subject to explain the nature of the gap and how it came to be. Tracing the histories of development over the past four hundred years and focusing in particular on the policies of the last fifty years, the contributors conclude that while many factors are important, economic policies and political systems are at the root of the divide. While the gap is deeply rooted in history, there have been times when it closed a bit as a consequence of policies chosen in places ranging from Chile to Argentina. Bringing to light these policy success stories, Fukuyama and the contributors offer a way forward for Latin American nations and improve their prospects for economic growth and stable political development. Given that so many attribute the gap to either vast cultural differences or the consequences of U.S. economic domination, Falling Behind is sure to stir debate. And, given the pressing importance of the subject in light of economic globalization and the immigration debate, its expansive, in-depth portrait of the hemisphere's development will be a welcome intervention in the conversation. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Symbolic Misery, Volume 1 Bernard Stiegler, 2016-10-03 In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Stiegler argues that our epoch is characterized by the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technology, where aesthetics has become both theatre and weapon in an economic war. This has resulted in a ‘symbolic misery’ where conditioning substitutes for experience. In today’s control societies, aesthetic weapons play an essential role: audiovisual and digital technologies have become a means of controlling the conscious and unconscious rhythms of bodies and souls, of modulating the rhythms of consciousness and life. The notion of an aesthetic engagement, capable of founding a new communal sensibility and a genuine aesthetic community, has largely collapsed today. This is because the overwhelming majority of the population is now totally subjected to the aesthetic conditioning of marketing and therefore estranged from any experience of aesthetic inquiry. That part of the population that continues to experiment aesthetically has turned its back on those who live in the misery of this conditioning. Stiegler appeals to the art world to develop a political understanding of its role. In this volume he pays particular attention to cinema which occupies a unique position in the temporal war that is the cause of symbolic misery: at once industrial technology and art, cinema is the aesthetic experience that can combat conditioning on its own territory. This highly original work - the first in Stiegler’s Symbolic Misery series - will be of particular interest to students in film studies, media and cultural studies, literature and philosophy and will consolidate Stiegler’s reputation as one of the most original cultural theorists of our time. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: After the Neocons Francis Fukuyama, 2007 A critique and reformulation of US foreign policy from one of the world's leading thinkers - who formerly regarded himself as a neocon. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man Ian Jackson, Jason Xidias, 2017-07-05 Francis Fukuyama’s controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama’s work, the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not, in fact, new, but they were novel in the academic and historical context of the time. Fukuyama’s central argument was that the end of the Cold War was a symptom of, and a vital waypoint in, a teleological progression of history. Interpreting history as “teleological” is to say that it is headed towards a final state, or end point: a state in which matters will reach an equilibrium in which things are as good as they can get. For Fukuyama, this would mean the end of “mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”. This grand theory, which sought to explain the end of the Cold War through a single overarching hypothesis, made the novel step of resurrecting the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel’s theory of history – which had long been ignored by practical historians and political philosophers – and applying it to current events. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1998 wide criticism both from Western and Eastern scholars. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Opinion of Mankind Paul Sagar, 2019-06-04 How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern state What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's long-underappreciated contributions to the history of political thought, The Opinion of Mankind considers how, following Thomas Hobbes's epochal intervention in the mid-seventeenth century, subsequent thinkers grappled with explaining how the state came into being, what it fundamentally might be, and how it could claim rightful authority over those subject to its power. Hobbes has cast a long shadow over Western political thought, particularly regarding the theory of the state. This book shows how Hume and Smith, the two leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment, forged an alternative way of thinking about the organization of modern politics. They did this in part by going back to the foundations: rejecting Hobbes's vision of human nature and his arguments about our capacity to form stable societies over time. In turn, this was harnessed to a deep reconceptualization of how to think philosophically about politics in a secular world. The result was an emphasis on the opinion of mankind, the necessary psychological basis of all political organization. Demonstrating how Hume and Smith broke away from Hobbesian state theory, The Opinion of Mankind also suggests ways in which these thinkers might shape how we think about politics today, and in turn how we might construct better political theory. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah, 2018-08-28 A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year As seen on the Netflix series Explained From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies That Bind is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities that define us. It challenges our assumptions about how identities work. We all know there are conflicts between identities, but Appiah shows how identities are created by conflict. Religion, he demonstrates, gains power because it isn’t primarily about belief. Our everyday notions of race are the detritus of discarded nineteenth-century science. Our cherished concept of the sovereign nation—of self-rule—is incoherent and unstable. Class systems can become entrenched by efforts to reform them. Even the very idea of Western culture is a shimmering mirage. From Anton Wilhelm Amo, the eighteenth-century African child who miraculously became an eminent European philosopher before retiring back to Africa, to Italo Svevo, the literary marvel who changed citizenship without leaving home, to Appiah’s own father, Joseph, an anticolonial firebrand who was ready to give his life for a nation that did not yet exist, Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with vibrant narratives to expose the myths behind our collective identities. These “mistaken identities,” Appiah explains, can fuel some of our worst atrocities—from chattel slavery to genocide. And yet, he argues that social identities aren’t something we can simply do away with. They can usher in moral progress and bring significance to our lives by connecting the small scale of our daily existence with larger movements, causes, and concerns. Elaborating a bold and clarifying new theory of identity, The Lies That Bind is a ringing philosophical statement for the anxious, conflict-ridden twenty-first century. This book will transform the way we think about who—and what—“we” are. |
| fukuyama francis the end of history: America at the Crossroads Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy Francis Fukuyama, 2006-01-01 Presents a critique of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, arguing that it stemmed from misconceptions about the realities of the situation in Iraq and a squandering of the goodwill of American allies following September 11th. |
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politics — Francis Fukuyama asks us to return with him to a question that has been asked by the great philosophers of centuries past: is there a direction to the history of mankind? And if it is directional, to what end is it moving? And where are we now in relation to that "end of history"? In this exciting and profound inquiry, which
The End of History?* - University of California, San Diego
Francis Fukuyama**. IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many regions of the world.
The End of History? - Springer
Forty years after Mao’s proclamation at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1949 one saw the revolutionary collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama proclaimed ‘the end of history’. Fukuyama’s controversial viewpoint was that the worldwide spread of Western political ...
The End Of History Francis Fukuyama [PDF]
Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man," published in 1992, posited that the triumph of liberal democracy marked the endpoint of ideological evolution. He argued that liberal democracy, with its emphasis on individual rights, free
Challenges to Francis Fukayama's End of History Thesis
Fukayama puts forth his "logic of history": Western institu tions and the values they espouse—democracy, individual rights, the rule of law, and wealth that results from economic freedom— are ultimately universal values that the world will aspire to and make their own if given the opportunity.
Did History End? Assessing the Fukuyama Thesis
2Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?" National Interest (Summer 1989): 3-18. In discussing his essay 24 years after its publication, Fukuyama suggested the appeal of the approach lies in the fact that declaring an end "conveys a kind of apocalyptic sense that there is a big transition underfoot.... You perceive there is
The End of History and the New World Order: The Triumph of …
Since the end of World War II, according to Fukuyama, history has manifested itself as a competition between liberal democracies and authoritarian, usually Marxist, regimes.
Shaping Ends: Reflections on Fukuyama - Marxists Internet …
The thesis of Fukuyama’s book on the usual reading is that history has now come to an end with the definitive victory of what might be called capitalist democracy or democratic capitalism; that is, of the combi-nation of capitalism and liberal democracy.
Notes on Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” - Olivia Lau
Fukuyama ends on a somewhat sad note. The passing of history means the passing of causes that were worth dying for, daring, courage, and idealism. It signals the end of art and philosophy. In the end, boredom itself may become the contradiction that begins history again.
The End of History and the Last Man - The European Liberal Forum
In his public interviews, Francis Fukuyama has often expressed exasper-ation—admittedly, in good humor—at the messages and e-mails he receives about the idea that liberalism somehow signiies the “end of history.” People ask him about 9/11, the global inancial crisis, Brexit, Donald Trump, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: don’t
188 REVIEW ESSAYS - JSTOR
The End of History and the Last Man provides an account of very recent events in the world that have made for "a remarkable consensus concerning the legitimacy of liberal democracy as a system of government." Thus, Francis Fukuyama describes how …
Francis Fukuyama, The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive …
Francis Fukuyama is probably best known for his article and a subsequent book . The End of History?published more than twenty years . ago. In that work the author argued that history ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reign of liberal democracy and capitalism all
THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA …
The book The End of History and the Last Man2 by the political scientist Francis Fukuyama exemplifies such a comeback of the end-of-time grand narrative. The author offers a positive reversion of what is normally associated with a cultural or economic decline and a pessimistic fin-de-siecle spirit. Fukuyama's end of
Identity according to Francis Fukuyama: An obstacle to the end of history
The text can be seen as an introduction to Francis Fukuyama’s reasoning regarding the modern problems of liberal democracy and as an attempt to understand his unsuc‑ cessful prediction of the end of history. The central theme of the text is the concept of identity, which Fukuyama describes as a source of conflicts and friction areas in modern
The Ends of History: Introduction
Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Andrew Sartori. been more than twenty years since Francis Fukuyama announced, in The End of History and the Last Man, that the fall of soviet communism meant that “History” had effectively come to a close.
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History - Montclair …
3 Sep 2018 · But the “end of history” claim was picked up in the mainstream press, Fukuyama was profiled by James Atlas in the New York Times Magazine, and his article was debated in Britain and in France and translated into many languages, from Japanese to Icelandic.
"The End of History" and the Fate of the Philosophy of History
3 The "End of History" qua a Philosophical Issue. The force of Fukuyama's investigation into the end of history comes from his understanding of Hegel, which in turn mainly comes from Kojeve. According to. Fukuyama, Kojeve is, after Marx, the greatest interpreter of Hegel, and the most.
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF FUKUYAMA' S THESIS THE END OF HISTORY…
Brief look at the profile of Francis Fukuyama. Discusses Fukuyama's article "The End Of History?" which was written in. 1989, at the end of Cold War in an optimistic atmosphere. The main contradictions, shortcomings, early and genera lized conclusions of this article, in explaining the post Cold War world are discus sed.
The end of history
The end of history thesis, recently popularized by Francis Fuku- yama, seems to resemble the end of ideology thesis propagated by American political scientists in the 1950s.
The End of History?
Francis Fukuyama is deputy director of the State climate of the world's two largest communist Department's policy planning staff and former countries, and the beginnings of significant analyst at the rand Corporation. This article reform movements in both. But this phenom
The End of History and the Last Man (The Free Press; 1992)
politics — Francis Fukuyama asks us to return with him to a question that has been asked by the great philosophers of centuries past: is there a direction to the history of mankind? And if it is directional, to what end is it moving? And where are we now in relation to that "end of history"? In this exciting and profound inquiry, which
The End of History?* - University of California, San Diego
Francis Fukuyama**. IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many regions of the world.
The End of History? - Springer
Forty years after Mao’s proclamation at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1949 one saw the revolutionary collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama proclaimed ‘the end of history’. Fukuyama’s controversial viewpoint was that the worldwide spread of Western political ...
The End Of History Francis Fukuyama [PDF]
Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man," published in 1992, posited that the triumph of liberal democracy marked the endpoint of ideological evolution. He argued that liberal democracy, with its emphasis on individual rights, free
Challenges to Francis Fukayama's End of History Thesis
Fukayama puts forth his "logic of history": Western institu tions and the values they espouse—democracy, individual rights, the rule of law, and wealth that results from economic freedom— are ultimately universal values that the world will aspire to and make their own if given the opportunity.
Did History End? Assessing the Fukuyama Thesis
2Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?" National Interest (Summer 1989): 3-18. In discussing his essay 24 years after its publication, Fukuyama suggested the appeal of the approach lies in the fact that declaring an end "conveys a kind of apocalyptic sense that there is a big transition underfoot.... You perceive there is
The End of History and the New World Order: The Triumph of …
Since the end of World War II, according to Fukuyama, history has manifested itself as a competition between liberal democracies and authoritarian, usually Marxist, regimes.
Shaping Ends: Reflections on Fukuyama - Marxists Internet …
The thesis of Fukuyama’s book on the usual reading is that history has now come to an end with the definitive victory of what might be called capitalist democracy or democratic capitalism; that is, of the combi-nation of capitalism and liberal democracy.
Notes on Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” - Olivia Lau
Fukuyama ends on a somewhat sad note. The passing of history means the passing of causes that were worth dying for, daring, courage, and idealism. It signals the end of art and philosophy. In the end, boredom itself may become the contradiction that begins history again.
The End of History and the Last Man - The European Liberal Forum
In his public interviews, Francis Fukuyama has often expressed exasper-ation—admittedly, in good humor—at the messages and e-mails he receives about the idea that liberalism somehow signiies the “end of history.” People ask him about 9/11, the global inancial crisis, Brexit, Donald Trump, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: don’t
188 REVIEW ESSAYS - JSTOR
The End of History and the Last Man provides an account of very recent events in the world that have made for "a remarkable consensus concerning the legitimacy of liberal democracy as a system of government." Thus, Francis Fukuyama describes how contemporary political and economic developments
Francis Fukuyama, The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive ...
Francis Fukuyama is probably best known for his article and a subsequent book . The End of History?published more than twenty years . ago. In that work the author argued that history ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reign of liberal democracy and capitalism all
THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA ...
The book The End of History and the Last Man2 by the political scientist Francis Fukuyama exemplifies such a comeback of the end-of-time grand narrative. The author offers a positive reversion of what is normally associated with a cultural or economic decline and a pessimistic fin-de-siecle spirit. Fukuyama's end of
Identity according to Francis Fukuyama: An obstacle to the end of history
The text can be seen as an introduction to Francis Fukuyama’s reasoning regarding the modern problems of liberal democracy and as an attempt to understand his unsuc‑ cessful prediction of the end of history. The central theme of the text is the concept of identity, which Fukuyama describes as a source of conflicts and friction areas in modern
The Ends of History: Introduction
Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Andrew Sartori. been more than twenty years since Francis Fukuyama announced, in The End of History and the Last Man, that the fall of soviet communism meant that “History” had effectively come to a close.
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History - Montclair …
3 Sep 2018 · But the “end of history” claim was picked up in the mainstream press, Fukuyama was profiled by James Atlas in the New York Times Magazine, and his article was debated in Britain and in France and translated into many languages, from Japanese to Icelandic.
"The End of History" and the Fate of the Philosophy of History
3 The "End of History" qua a Philosophical Issue. The force of Fukuyama's investigation into the end of history comes from his understanding of Hegel, which in turn mainly comes from Kojeve. According to. Fukuyama, Kojeve is, after Marx, the greatest interpreter of Hegel, and the most.
A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF FUKUYAMA' S THESIS THE END OF HISTORY…
Brief look at the profile of Francis Fukuyama. Discusses Fukuyama's article "The End Of History?" which was written in. 1989, at the end of Cold War in an optimistic atmosphere. The main contradictions, shortcomings, early and genera lized conclusions of this article, in explaining the post Cold War world are discus sed.
The end of history
The end of history thesis, recently popularized by Francis Fuku- yama, seems to resemble the end of ideology thesis propagated by American political scientists in the 1950s.
