An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
Ian Jackson, "An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man "
English | ISBN: 1912303256 | 2017 | 98 pages | PDF | 1077 KB
English | ISBN: 1912303256 | 2017 | 98 pages | PDF | 1077 KB
Francis Fukuyama’s controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence.
In the case of Fukuyama’s work, the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not, in fact, new, but they were novel in the academic and historical context of the time. Fukuyama’s central argument was that the end of the Cold War was a symptom of, and a vital waypoint in, a teleological progression of history.
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