History and the Idea of Progress / Arthur M. Melzer, M. Richard Zinman, Jerry Weinberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melzer, Arthur M., Editor.

Weinberger, Jerry, Editor.

Zinman, M. Richard, Editor.

Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The publication of Francis Fukuyama's article, "The End of History?" prompted a wave of public debates about democracy, progress, and the idea of history. In this book, twelve distinguished cultural commentators offer a brilliant array of responses to those debates.Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters-none of which has appeared elsewhere-include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction / Melzer, Arthur M. / Weinberger, Jerry / Zinman, M. Richard

Part I. THE REVIVAL OF THE IDEA OF HISTORY AS A RATIONAL PROCESS

1. On the Possibility of Writing A Universal History / Fukuyama, Francis

2. Hegel on History, Self-Determination, and the Absolute / Pinkard, Terry

Part II. RETROSPECTIVE: ON THE HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF HISTORY

3. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress / Mansfield, Harvey C.

4. Kant's Idea of History / Shell, Susan

5. The End of History in the Open-ended Age? The Life Expectancy of Self-evident Truth / Cropsey, Joseph

6. Nietzsche and Spengler on Progress and Decline / Dannhauser, Werner J.

Part III. CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS: WHERE IS HISTORY GOING?

7. Political Conflict after the Cold War / Huntington, Samuel P.

8. Enlightenment under Threat / O'Brien, Conor Cruise

9. "What Then?": The Irrepressible Radicalism of Democracy / Gilbert, Alan

10. Feminism and the Crisis of Contemporary Culture / Elshtain, Jean Bethke

11. The End of Leninism and History as Comic Frame / Rorty, Richard

12. The Age of Limits / Lasch, Christopher

NOTES

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4467-4

OCLC:

1125106492