The End of History and the Last Man

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• Happily ever after

  In 1989 the National Interest, an American journal, published an article by Francis Fukuyama called ‘The End of History’. It was reprinted around the world in a buzz of discussion. Was Fukuyama right to claim that the End of Communism spells the End ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

• Professor Hegel Goes to Washington

  Francis Fukuyama’s discovery of the end of history first came to the public’s attention in the summer of 1989. The essay he wrote for The National Interest on “The End of History?” made the headlines in Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere; it was for a sho ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  As the tumultuous twentieth century shudders toward its close – with the collapse of communism leading to a transformation of world politics – [the author] 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 ... (continue)

  As the tumultuous twentieth century shudders toward its close – with the collapse of communism leading to a transformation of world politics – [the author] 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”?...</p><p>"...[The author] is in, and is worthy of, a grand tradition. He takes up where de Tocqueville left off, wondering whether liberal democratic culture raises humanity only from its barbarism to banality, and whether banality breeds instability, atavism and other old sorrows of history”. – George F. Will</p><p>"For me, [the author’s thought] is an attempt to arm Western political thought with new fundamental theoretical arguments to reinforce its practical actions. Moreover, it is not an unsuccessful attempt...." – Eduard Shevardnadze

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• English Books
• Paperback 448 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 0380720027
• ISBN-13: 9780380720026
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Pub date: Feb 01, 1993
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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