Liberal democracy as the end of history
Subtitle: Fukuyama and postmodern challenges
By: Chris Hughes
Series: Routledge innovations in political theory -- 39
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415669054; 9780203802175
Subjects: Postmodernism; Philosophy; Democracy; Liberalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Methodology : an approach to philosophical analysis; title: Fukuyama I : the concept of a history with universal direction and end point; title: Fukuyama II : why does history end in liberal democracy?; title: Postmodern perspectives on the flow of time; title: Questioning the universality of human nature; title: The myth of the individual : how "I" is constructed and gives an account of itself; title: A theory of a history which ends in liberal democracy through a reading of Fukuyama and postmodernism.