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The End of History and the Last Man| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Francis Fukuyama | | Publisher: | Harper Perennial | | Release date: | 01 February, 1993 | | List price: | $15.00 |
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Faith and taste based predictions |
This book is definitely impressive for the breadth of topics it covers in a clear manner and you really feel a bit more educated for reading this. Its main thesis is that democracy is the most efficient and socio-economically beneficial political system and since there is now only a truly successful democracy as super power the rest of the world will have to make way and adapt to democratic institutions and learn to live in peace. Even though the author supposedly considers all sides of the issues he choses democracy and universal harmony as supreme just based on faith and not necessarily on evidence.
The least charitable way of describing this book is that of the giddy boasting by the victors in an ideological war. Whenever the author senses that there might be some contadictions with reality he chooses to quote grand ideologies of Hegel, Weber and other ideologues to make sure that his book is not a compilation of speculations. Ofcourse one might ask what is the use of one speculation being justified by quoting many other speculations. But the author seems to believe that aging of past speculations gives them academic respectability. For my part I will stick to analytic, sensible and realistic Marxian econo-political analysis. Yes, there were many evils with practical Marxism in the form of governance but as of now there are no other lesser evils of socio-economic analysis with predictive powers.
But then if you are one of those people with strong and rigid moral convictions which needs reinforcement not reasons for change this is the book for you. |
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The end of Fukuyama |
I read more than hundreds of books, this was the worst one that is for sure. If this guy is a professor, I am the president of the United Staes. DO you want to read this book? In one word, don't...Something is ended, that is the end of Fukuyama as a professor.... |
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No DOUBT this is CONTROVERSIAL! |
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have been casting about for some seminal tome which defines the new epoch.
I think this IS that book. I could find faults with it, but its virtues FAR outweigh its vices.
But because this book is so "in the face" of the tired kneejerk liberal dweebs who STILL pollute academia, this book will be pilloried and slandered.
No problem. This book is out there, for honest and inquiring young minds to discover.
My only beef is the rather technical Hegelian/Marxist definition of the word "history" of the title, which will cause many young searchers to give it a pass.
I ignored this book for years (due to the defective title), then got into it by reading the "juicy" parts.
As an undergrad thirty years ago, I understood this definition of "history", but had since forgotten. (Hegel is a turgid turd who couldn't WRITE a hot check.)
This book is brilliant. I should have written it.
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