Francis Fukuyama and the End of History

Sullivan David, E Matthews, Howard Williams

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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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History

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• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 20 juillet 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781783168774
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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Chief Editor of the Series: Howard Williams, Aberystwyth University, Wales

Associate Editors: Wolfgang Kersting, University of Kiel, Germany Steven B. Smith, Yale University, USA Peter Nicholson, University of York, England Renato Cristi, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

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Francis Fukuyama and the end of history

hOWàrd wILLIàmS, DàvId suLLIvàN àNd E. GWYNN MàTTHeWS

UniVERsity oF walEs pREss • 2016

© Howard Williams, David Sullivan and E. Gwynn Matthews, 2016

The original text ofFrancis Fukuyama and the end of historywas first published by the University of Wales Press in 1997

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Religion and the End of History

Foreword by Series Editor to the Second Edition

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Contents

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Bibliography

Notes

Index

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Introduction

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Hegel: Spirit and State

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Rewriting Modernity: History, Progress and Identity 165

Fukuyama After the End of History

Kant: History and the Moral Imperative

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Fukuyama II: Recognition and Liberal Democracy

Popper: A Liberal Critic of the End of History

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Marx: Communism and the End of Prehistory

Preface to the Second Edition

Fukuyama III: International Dimensions

Fukuyama I: Reinventing Optimism

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Philosophies of History

Foreword by Series Editor to the Second Edition

Chapters 10 and 11 are new to this edition and discuss Fukuyama’s work in the quarter century following the publication ofThe End of History and the Last Man. Readers familiar with Fukuyama’s earlier work may wish to begin with the Preface to the Second Edi tion and then move to chapter 10. The remaining chapters, with some minor changes to the Introduction, remain unaltered from the first edition, for reasons that are discussed in the Preface to the Second Edition. Each of the chapters in this book was written predominantly by one of the authors. Howard Williams provided chapters 1, 2 and 3 on Kant, Hegel and Marx; chapters 4, 5 and 6 on Fukuyama were composed by David Sullivan; and chapters 7 and 8 on Popper and religion and the end of history were written by Gwynn Matthews (who was responsible for first bringing the three authors together). Chapter 9 (the original Conclusion to the First Edition) was writ ten by Howard Williams and David Sullivan. David Sullivan wrote the larger part of chapter 10, with Gwynn Matthews contributing to the section on Huntington. Howard Williams wrote the larger part of chapter 11, with contributions on Fukuyama from David Sullivan. Gwynn Matthews, who remains closer to Fukuyama’s original Hegelianism, dissented from the Kantian emphasis of this last chapter, an indication of the way in which Fukuyama’s work continues to give rise to fruitful debate. This is the broad picture. However, substantial sections of each chapter were provided by the other authors as well. So the whole is a collaborative enterprise. For the sake of consistency, the entire book was brought together by David Sullivan and then finally edited by Howard Williams.

Preface to the Second Edition

The invitation to prepare a new edition ofFrancis Fukuyama and the End of Historyprovided the opportunity to return to a has writer and a theme which both have enormous relevance to the contemporary world. At first sight these claims – and the appear ance of a second edition of this book – might seem strange as Francis Fukuyama’s paper ‘The End of History?’ and his book length development of the themes of the article inThe End of His tory and the Last Manwere both products, at least in large part, of the end of the Cold War. While understandable, such a reaction is nevertheless misguided. Part of the aim of this new edition is to show the continuing relevance of Fukuyama’s ideas and the ways in which they have been developed in his subsequent work, but we also want to return to the wider question of the end of history as it developed through the work of Kant, Hegel and Marx to dis cuss its significance in the very changed political situation of the twentyfirst century. To this end we have added two new chapters. In the first edition of the book we wrote that Fukuyama was a contemporary writer whose work was still in the process of develop ing, and we alluded to the practical problem which arises from the fortunate fact that the author was still alive and might well produce further works of perhaps greater significance. In the intervening years the truth of these words has been borne out as Fukuyama has produced a large and impressive body of work subsequent to The End of History and the Last Man. Our first new chapter, chapter 10, discusses a number of themes which have developed in Fukuyama’s work over the past quarter century. These include Fukuyama’s response to neoconservatism; his nuanced and sophis ticated dialogue with Samuel Huntington over issues including, but by no means restricted to, the debate over the clash of civilizations; and Fukuyama’s major contribution to the debate over democratic transition, especially in the light of the socalled Arab Spring. All of these themes are related to the end of history thesis, but we argue that it would be a serious misunderstanding to assume