Liberal Democracy as the End of History : Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges - Christopher Hughes

Liberal Democracy as the End of History

Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges

By: Christopher Hughes

Paperback | 14 October 2024

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Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.

The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyamaâs thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about a universal and teleological history; a universal human nature; or an autonomous individual?  It addresses whether postmodern theories - concerning the movement of time, what it means to be human, and what it means to be an individual/subject - can be accommodated within a theory of a history that ends in liberal democracy.

The author argues that incorporating elements of postmodern thought into Fukuyamaâs theory makes it possible to produce a stronger and more compelling account of the theory that liberal democracy is the end of history. The result of this is to underpin Fukuyamaâs theory with a more complex understanding of the movement of time, the human and the individual, and to show that postmodern concepts can, paradoxically, be used to strengthen Fukuyamaâs theory that the end of history is liberal democracy. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, postmodernism and the work of Francis Fukuyama.

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