| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Ends of History -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Communist Desire -- 2 Uneven Developments and the End to the History of Modernity's Social Democratic Orientation: Madison's Pro-Union Demonstrations -- 3 Imperial Ends -- 4 Of First and Last Men: Contract and Colonial Historicality in Foucault -- 5 A Presence of a Constant End: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture in Japan -- 6 Frank's Motel: Horizontal and Vertical in the Big Other -- 7 Hegel and Plasticity -- 8 Hegel's Last Words: Mourning and Melancholia at the End of the Phenomenology -- 9 "If you could take just two books ... ": Jacques Derrida at the Ends of the World with Heidegger and Robinson Crusoe -- 10 What Happened? What Is Going to Happen? An Essay on the Experience of the Event -- 11 History Drift -- Index |
| Summary |
The Ends of History? considers how, despite the fact that events in the past 20 years have called Francis Fukuyama's infamous announcement of the end of history into question, the issue of the end of history is now a matter of renewed interest and debate. Two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the 'end of history' was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that liberal democracy and free market capitalism are the final form of law and |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nichols, Joshua
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| ISBN |
9781136157769 |
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113615776X |
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