A Few Words in Defence of Francis Fukuyama

... and upheavals does not take great insight; minimal imagination suffices. However, finding a way of restoring global governance that is more realistic than the “end of history” requires grand-scale thinking and intellectual audacity that are at least comparable to the scale and daring of the young Fukuyama. Incidentally, the full title of Francis Fukuyama’s book published in 1992 is The End of History and the Last Man . If the “end of history” can be interpreted as a direct reference to Hegel, then “the last man” is a term that Fukuyama clearly borrowed from Nietzsche. In his ...