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The End of History and the Last Man

The End of History and the Last Man

The End of History and the Last Man , by Francis Fukuyama, is a political book of philosophy which proposes that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy – occurred after the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union – humanity had reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government". As an expansion of his essay "The End of History?" , for the book The End of History and the Last Man Fukuyama drew upon the philosophies and ideologies of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, who defined human history as a linear progression, from one socio-economic epoch to another.


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