Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thought
"Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis ...
Enhanced by a new afterword dealing with the post-September 11th world, a provocative exploration of issues of human society and destiny answers such questions as, is there a direction to human history? does history have an end? and where ...
Gratitude is also owed to Catherine Liu for her continuing enthusiasm, and for inviting us to UC Irvine to record and participate in her graduate seminar critiquing “wellness”. Our “CaliBunga” series on the Californian ideology was a ...
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 ...
Now, in The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it ...
Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, 2:420. 26. Paul J. Watson and Randy Thornhill, “Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Selection,” Tree 9 (1994): 21-25. 27. Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, 1:216. 28. Hegel, Aesthetics, 71.
... 386 social, 434 (Tocqueville), 323, 479 Democratic Party, U.S., 8 democratization, 3, 250, 322, 325, 459 (Wrangham), 31 Deng, Kent, 501 , 517 Deng Xiaoping, 65, 120, 317,475 Denmark, 14, 16, 143, 258, 431–34, 447 accountability in, ...
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize • Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award • Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • Shortlisted for ...
Daniel Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this.
Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.