Howard Williams, E Gwynn Matthews, David Sullivan

Francis Fukuyama and the End of History (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fukuyama's concept of the End of History has been one of the most widely debated theories of international politics since the end of the Cold War. This book discusses Fukuyama's claim that liberal democracy alone is able to satisfy the human aspiration for freedom and dignity, and explores the way in which his thinking is part of a philosophical tradition which includes Kant, Hegel and Marx. Two new chapters in this second edition discuss the ways in which Fukuyama's thinking has developed - they include his celebrated and controversial criticism of neoconservatism and his complex intellectual relationship to Samuel Huntington, whose Clash of Civilization thesis he rejects but whose notion of political decay is central to his more recent work. The authors here argue that Fukuyama's continuing fundamental contributions to debates concerning the spread of democracy and threat of global terror mark him out as one of the most important thinkers of the twenty-first century.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783168774
• Artikelnr.: 45259535

Autorenporträt

Howard Williams is Honorary Distinguished Professor in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and professor emeritus of political theory in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. David Sullivan is former head of the School of Lifelong Learning and a senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Religion at Bangor University. E.Gwynn Mathews has taught philosophy in the Department of Lifelong Learning and also lectured in philosophy of religion in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Bangor.