History and the Idea of Progress
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2019
272 pages
978-1-5017-4467-9 (ISBN)
Description
The publication of Francis Fukuyama's article, "The End of History?" prompted a wave of public debates about democracy, progress, and the idea of history. In this book, twelve distinguished cultural commentators offer a brilliant array of responses to those debates.
Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters-none of which has appeared elsewhere-include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics. -- Cornell University Press
Fukuyama's controversial essay had considered whether Western-style democracy might be the endpoint of an inevitable historical development. For the present volume, the chapters-none of which has appeared elsewhere-include both a keynote chapter by Fukuyama and a series of spirited alternatives to his position. Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's perspectives on progress and politics. -- Cornell University Press
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-4467-9 (9781501744679)
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Arthur M. Melzer | M. Richard Zinman
History and the Idea of Progress
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01/1995
Cornell University Press
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Persons
Arthur M. Melzer and Jerry Weinberger are professors of political science at Michigan State University. M. Richard Zinman is University Distinguished Professor at James Madison College, Michigan State University and coeditor of Politics and the Turn of the Century and The Public Intellectual. Melzer, Weinberg, and Zinman also edited Technology in the Western Political Tradition, also from Cornell. -- Cornell University Press
Content
- Cover
- History and the Idea of Progress
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I The Revival of the Idea of History as a Rational Process
- 1 On the Possibility of Writing a Universal History
- 2 Hegel on History, Self-Determination, and the Absolute
- PART II Retrospective: On the History of the Idea of History
- 3 Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress
- 4 Kant's Idea of History
- 5 The End of History in the Open-ended Age? The Life Expectancy of Self-evident Truth
- 6 Nietzsche and Spengler on Progress and Decline
- PART III Contemporary Reflections: Where Is History Going?
- 7 Political Conflict after the Cold War
- 8 Enlightenment under Threat
- 9 "What Then?" The Irrepressible Radicalism of Democracy
- 10 Feminism and the Crisis of Contemporary Culture
- 11 The End of Leninism and History as Comic Frame
- 12 The Age of Limits
- Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
