Francis Fukuyama and the End of history / Howard Williams, David Sullivan and E. Gwynn Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Howard, author.

Sullivan, David, author.

Matthews, E. Gwynn, author.

Contributor:

Fukuyama, Francis.

Series:

Political philosophy now.

Political philosophy now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Cardiff] : University of Wales Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 14, 2016).

Related Work:

Fukuyama, Francis. End of history and the last man.

ISBN:

1-78316-877-3

1-78316-878-1