- Philosophy, World politics, History, Weltgeschichte
Observing totalitarian and authoritarian governments falling around the world, Fukuyama develops an hypothesis that the end state of all this change will be liberal democracy everywhere (The End of History), and considers how people will react (The Last Man).
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Cool, epic, earnest and contemporary.
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Francis Fukuyama
- First published
- August 1994
- Pages
- 421
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Avon Books
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Japanese, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780241130131
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 9 have read it and 108 want to.
“The twentieth century, it is safe to say, has made all of us into deep historical pessimists.”
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and writer.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
What We Owe the Future 202286% alikeBoth epic, contemporary, earnest.
The Big Picture 201683% alikeBoth epic, contemporary, earnest.
The theory of everything 200277% alikeBoth cool, earnest, epic.
The Third Chimpanzee 199176% alikeBoth cool, earnest, spare.
The Tyranny of Merit 202073% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest, classical in form.
The better angels of our nature 201173% alikeBoth epic, earnest, cool.
Both cool, contemporary, spare.
Until the End of Time 202072% alikeBoth epic, contemporary, earnest.
Film · Both earnest, contemporary, grave; this one is more plot-driven.
Side by Side 201261% alikeFilm · Both earnest, grave, cool.