History and the Idea of Progress / / ed. by Jerry Weinberger, Arthur M. Melzer, M. Richard Zinman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Cropsey, Joseph,; Dannhauser, Werner J.,; Elshtain, Jean Bethke,; Fukuyama, Francis,; Gilbert, Alan,; Huntington, Samuel P.,; Lasch, Christopher,; Mansfield, Harvey C.,; Melzer, Arthur M.,; O’Brien, Conor Cruise,; Pinkard, Terry,; Rorty, Richard,; Shell, Susan,; Weinberger, Jerry,; Zinman, M. Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Melzer, Arthur M.,; Weinberger, Jerry,; Zinman, M. Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501744679; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501744679
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jerry Weinberger, Arthur M. Melzer, M. Richard Zinman.

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.