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An edition of The End of History and the Last Man (1992)

The end of history and the last man

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  • 8 Have read

Presents evidence to suggest that there are two powerful forces at work in human history, "the logic of modern science" and "the struggle for recognition."

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Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
Language
English
Pages
418

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Subjects

Philosophy, World politics, History, Weltgeschichte, Geschiedfilosofie, Ende, Politieke ideologie, Imaginary histories, open_syllabus_project, History -- Philosophy, World politics -- 1945-, Política mundial, Geschichtsphilosophie, History, philosophy, World politics, 1945-, Social evolution, Social change, World politics, 1989-, 1945-, Liberalisme, Natuurwetenschappen, Democratie, Ontwikkeling (proces), História (teoria), Política, Economia política

People

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Alexandre Kojève, Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville

Times

1945-, 1945-1989, 1945-1965, 1965-

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The End of History and the Last Man
February 28, 2006, Free Press
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The end of history and the last man
1992, Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-401) and index.

Published in
New York, Toronto, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
901
Library of Congress
D16.8 .F85 1992

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Pagination
xxiii, 418 p. ;
Number of pages
418

Edition Identifiers

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OL1550012M
ISBN 10
0029109752
LCCN
91029677
OCLC/WorldCat
24378505
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5328305
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1760029

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OL2670501W

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