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October 5, 2023 | History

The End of History and the Last Man

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Observing totalitarian and authoritarian governments falling around the world, Fukuyama develops an hypothesis that the end state of all this change will be liberal democracy everywhere (The End of History), and considers how people will react (The Last Man).

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
432

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Cover of: The End of History and the Last Man
The End of History and the Last Man
February 28, 2006, Free Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: The end of history and the last man
The end of history and the last man
2002, HarperCollins
in English
Cover of: Das Ende der Geschichte
Das Ende der Geschichte: wo stehen wir?
1992, Kindler
in German
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The end of history and the last man
1992, Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
in English

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First Sentence

"The twentieth century, it is safe to say, has made all of us into deep historical pessimists."

Table of Contents

Contents
Page vii
Acknowledgments
Page ix
By Way of an Introduction
Page xi
I. An Old Question Asked Anew
1. Our Pessimism
Page 3
2. The Weakness of Strong States I
Page 13
3. The weakness of Strong States II, or, Eating Pineapples on the Moon
Page 23
4. The Worldwide Liberal Revolution
Page 39
II. The Old Age of Mankind
5. An Idea for a Universal History
Page 55
6. The Mechanism of Desire
Page 71
7. No Barbarians at the Gates
Page 82
8. Accumulation without End
Page 89
9. The Victory of the VCR
Page 98
10. In the Land of Education
Page 109
11. The Former Question Answered
Page 129
12. No Democracy without Democrats
Page 131
III. The Struggle for Recognition
13. In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige
Page 143
14. The First Man
Page 153
15. A Vacation in Bulgaria
Page 162
16. The Beast with Red Cheeks
Page 171
17. The Rise and Fall of Thymos
Page 181
18. Lordship and Bondage3
Page 192
19. The Universal and Homogeneous State
Page 199
IV. Leaping Over Rhodes
20. The Coldest of All Cold Monsters
Page 211
21. The Thymotic Origins of Work
Page 223
22. Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference
Page 235
23. The Unreality of “Realism”
Page 245
24. The Power of the Powerless
Page 254
25. National Interests
Page 266
26. Toward a Pacific Union
Page 276
V. The Last Man
27. In the Realm of Freedom
Page 287
28. Men Without Chests
Page 300
29. Free and Unequal
Page 313
30. Perfect Rights and Defective Duties
Page 322
31. Immense Wars of the Spirit
Page 328
Afterword to the Second Paperback Edition of The End of History and the Last Man
Page 341
Notes
Page 355
Bibliography
Page 405
Index
Page 417

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2006

Classifications

Library of Congress
D16.8 .F85 2006, D16.8.F85 2006

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
Weight
13.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7948702M
Internet Archive
endofhistoryth00fuku
ISBN 10
0743284550
ISBN 13
9780743284554
LCCN
2006274504
OCLC/WorldCat
67405735
Library Thing
5328305
Goodreads
57981

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