The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, ISBN-13: 978-0743284554

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The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, ISBN-13: 978-0743284554

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• Publisher: ‎ Free Press; Reissue edition (March 1, 2006)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎464 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0743284550
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0743284554

Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. “Profoundly realistic and important…supremely timely and cogent…the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world.” —The Washington Post Book World

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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments IX

By Way of an Introduction XI

Part I AN OLD QUESTION ASKED ANEW

1 Our Pessimism 3

2 The Weakness of Strong States I 13

3 The Weakness of Strong States II, or,

Eating Pineapples on the Moon 23

4 The Worldwide Liberal Revolution 39

Part II THE OLD AGE OF MANKIND

5 An Idea for a Universal History 55

6 The Mechanism of Desire 71

7 No Barbarians at the Gates 82

8 Accumulation without End 89

9 The Victory of the VCR 98

10 In the Land of Education 109

11 The Former Question Answered 126

12 No Democracy without Democrats 131

Part III THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION

13 In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige 143

14 The First Man 153

15 A Vacation in Bulgaria 162

16 The Beast with Red Cheeks 171

17 The Rise and Fall of Thymos 181

18 Lordship and Bondage 192

19 The Universal and Homogeneous State 199

Part IV LEAPING OVER RHODES

20 The Coldest of All Cold Monsters 211

21 The Thymotic Origins of Work 223

22 Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference 235

23 The Unreality of “Realism” 245 24 The Power of the Powerless 254

25 National Interests 266

26 Toward a Pacific Union 276

Part V THE LAST MAN

27 In the Realm of Freedom 287

28 Men without Chests 300

29 Free and Unequal 313

30 Perfect Rights and Defective Duties 322

31 Immense Wars of the Spirit 328

Notes 341

Bibliography 391

Index 403

Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Mosbacher DIrector of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written about questions concerning governance, democratization, and international political economy. His book The End of History and the Last Man has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.

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