The End of History And the Last Man

by Fukuyama, Francis

• ISBN13: 9780743284554
• ISBN10: 0743284550
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

Ever since its first publication in 1992,The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controversy and debate. 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 Manis a modern classic.

Author Biography

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. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
By Way of an Introduction	xi
Part I AN OLD QUESTION ASKED ANEW
Our Pessimism	3	(10)
The Weakness of Strong States I	13	(10)
The Weakness of Strong States II, or, Eating Pineapples on the Moon	23	(16)
The Worldwide Liberal Revolution	39	(16)
Part II The Old Age of Mankind
An Idea for a Universal History	55	(16)
The Mechanism of Desire	71	(11)
No Barbarians at the Gates	82	(7)
Accumulation without End	89	(9)
The Victory of the VCR	98	(11)
In the Land of Education	109	(17)
The Former Question Answered	126	(5)
No Democracy without Democrats	131	(12)
Part III THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION
In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige	143	(10)
The First Man	153	(9)
A Vacation in Bulgaria	162	(9)
The Beast with Red Cheeks	171	(10)
The Rise and Fall of Thymos	181	(11)
Lordship and Bondage	192	(7)
The Universal and Homogeneous State	199	(12)
Part IV LEAPING OVER RHODES
The Coldest of All Cold Monsters	211	(12)
The Thymotic Origins of Work	223	(12)
Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference	235	(10)
The Unreality of ``Realism''	245	(9)
The Power of the Powerless	254	(12)
National Interests	266	(10)
Toward a Pacific Union	276	(11)
Part V THE LAST MAN
In the Realm of Freedom	287	(13)
Men without Chests	300	(13)
Free and Unequal	313	(9)
Perfect Rights and Defective Duties	322	(6)
Immense Wars of the Spirit	328	(13)
Afterword to the Second Paperback Edition of The End of History and the Last Man	341	(14)
Notes	355	(50)
Bibliography	405	(12)
Index	417