Liberal Democracy as the End of History: Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780415669054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 228 str.

Christopher Hughes

Opis

Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Methodology – An Approach to Philosophical Analysis  2. Fukuyama I – The Concept of a History with Universal Direction and End Point  3. Fukuyama II – Why does History end in Liberal Democracy?  4. Postmodern Perspectives on the Flow of Time  5. Questioning the Universality of Human Nature – A Politics without a Concept of the "Human"  6. The Myth of the Individual – How "I" is Constructed and Gives an Account of Itself  7. A Theory of a History which Ends in Liberal Democracy Through a Reading of Fukuyama and Postmodernism  Postscript: Limitations and Outcomes of The Study  Bibliography

O autorze

Chris Hughes currently teaches at the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester, UK.