The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, ISBN-13: 978-0743284554
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- Publisher: Free Press; Reissue edition (March 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 0743284550
- ISBN-13: 978-0743284554
Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. “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 of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments IX
By Way of an Introduction XI
Part I AN OLD QUESTION ASKED ANEW
1 Our Pessimism 3
2 The Weakness of Strong States I 13
3 The Weakness of Strong States II, or,
Eating Pineapples on the Moon 23
4 The Worldwide Liberal Revolution 39
Part II THE OLD AGE OF MANKIND
5 An Idea for a Universal History 55
6 The Mechanism of Desire 71
7 No Barbarians at the Gates 82
8 Accumulation without End 89
9 The Victory of the VCR 98
10 In the Land of Education 109
11 The Former Question Answered 126
12 No Democracy without Democrats 131
Part III THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION
13 In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige 143
14 The First Man 153
15 A Vacation in Bulgaria 162
16 The Beast with Red Cheeks 171
17 The Rise and Fall of Thymos 181
18 Lordship and Bondage 192
19 The Universal and Homogeneous State 199
Part IV LEAPING OVER RHODES
20 The Coldest of All Cold Monsters 211
21 The Thymotic Origins of Work 223
22 Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference 235
23 The Unreality of “Realism” 245 24 The Power of the Powerless 254
25 National Interests 266
26 Toward a Pacific Union 276
Part V THE LAST MAN
27 In the Realm of Freedom 287
28 Men without Chests 300
29 Free and Unequal 313
30 Perfect Rights and Defective Duties 322
31 Immense Wars of the Spirit 328
Notes 341
Bibliography 391
Index 403
Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Mosbacher DIrector of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written about questions concerning governance, democratization, and international political economy. His book The End of History and the Last Man has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.
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