The End of History" would never have existed, either as an article or as this present book, without the invitation to deliver a lecture by that title during the 1988-89 academic year, extended by Professors Nathan Tarcov and Allan Bloom of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democ- racy at the University of Chicago. Both have been long-time teach- ers and friends…
History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with sur- prise and shock. When we think back over the past few years, what strikes us is the suddenness of its blows, the unannounced descent of its thunderbolts. Wars, revolutions, uprisings have burst upon us with terrible rapidity. Advances in science and technology have rewritten the very terms and conditions of the human contract with …
Saif 16/8/24
My thesis in this introduction will be that contemporary Anglo-Saxon philos- ophy of history is confronted with a dilemma and that the future of philosophy of history depends on the choice that is ultimately reached. I have deliberately avoided the word crisis" and used the word "dilemma," as the two alternative standpoints in this dilemma do not share a common past in the way that is sug- gest…
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In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article of mine titled The Clash of Civilizations?" That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, stirred up more discussion in three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s. It certainly stirred up more debate in three years than anything else I have written. The responses and comments on it have c…
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