Fukuyama Francis. The End of History and the Last Man

The Free Press, 2006. — 464 p.Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has 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 Man is a modern classic.By Way of an Introduction
An Old Question Asked Anew
Our Pessimism
The Weakness of Strong States I
The Weakness of Strong States II, or, Eating Pineapples on the Moon
The Worldwide Liberal Revolution
The Old Age of Mankind
An Idea for a Universal History
The Mechanism of Desire
No Barbarians at the Gates
Accumulation without End
The Victory of the VCR
In the Land of Education
The Former Question Answered
No Democracy without Democrats
The Struggle for Recognition
In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige
The First Man
A Vacation in Bulgaria
The Beast with Red Cheeks
The Rise and Fall of Thymos
Lordship and Bondage
The Universal and Homogeneous State
Leaping over Rhodes
The Coldest of All Cold Monsters
The Thymotic Origins of Work
Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference
The Unreality of “Realism”
The Power of the Powerless
National Interests
Toward a Pacific Union
The Last Man
In the Realm of Freedom
Men without Chests
Free and Unequal
Perfect Rights and Defective Duties
Immense Wars of the Spirit
Afterword to the Second Paperback Edition of The End of History and the Last Man
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