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end of history en · PROPN

Etymology

Popularized by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), based on an article he wrote in 1989.

Meanings

1. A political or philosophical concept positing that a certain political, economic or social system will be the last one that humanity develops.
   • Twenty-five years ago this summer, Francis Fukuyama announced the “end of history” and the inevitable triumph of liberal capitalist democracy. 2014 September 1, Timothy Stanley, Alexander Lee, “It's Still Not the End of History”, in The Atlantic:
   • […]I argued that liberal democracy may constitute the “end point of mankind's ideological evolution” and the “final form of history” and as such constituted the “end of history”. 1992, Francis Fukuyama, “By Way of an Introduction”, in The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, →ISBN, page xi:

Forms

Relateds

arc of history · end times · war to end all wars · end-of-history illusion

Synonyms

eschaton

Translations (1)

cmn 歷史的終結 /历史的终结 (Translations)

wikipedia: The End of History and the Last Man · wikidata: Q13218530 · wikipedia: Francis Fukuyama