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.)

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 con...

Table of Contents

• 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