Christopher Hughes

Liberal Democracy as the End of History

Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges

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Produktbeschreibung

Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. Fukuyama and Liberal Democracy provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas. The book argues that key concepts in Fukuyama's theory--geist, human, individual, history--can be critiqued as being non-universal in postmodern thought. It attempts to find a space for a conversation between liberalism, Enlightenment ideas and postmodern ideas. It thus shows a reconciliation between schools of liberal-Enlightenment theory and postmodern thought, ultimately using postmodern ideas to strengthen Fukuyama's theory and make a more compelling case that liberal democracy is the end of history. Fukuyama and Liberal Democracy will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, postmodernism and the work of Francis Fukuyama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415669054
• ISBN-10: 0415669057
• Artikelnr.: 32730841

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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