Does History “stop”, “start”, and “accelerate”?

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Presentation

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.pdf

Published date :

07/24/2006

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Humanities/philosophy

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Summary :

Introduction
The technical end of the twentieth century
Speculation on the new beginning with the end of the twentieth century
The structural evolutions that occurred between the Roman Empire and during the 1600's in Europe
The period between 1989, the end of the 20th century
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

The fall of the Berlin wall symbolised the end of communism, and the victory of liberal democracy. The suddenness with which the soviet empire collapsed, without any resistance, authorised the idea that democracy was going to triumph all over the globe. Fukuyama exposed in a very controversial article "The End of history" , his thesis arguing that all the societies were moving toward peace, prosperity and freedom, given that without any competition, democracy was going to be considered as the most reliable system, especially after the manifestation of what both fascism and Stalinism were capable of. "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" . Therefore, except for some regional issues, the world was going to remain indefinitely into a liberal democratic system with capitalism, and the entire world would live under an international order, where human rights would be stronger than the use of force, respecting the people' will. Following the Hegelian definition of history, which argues that "Human history must therefore be seen not only as a succession of accomplishment, but more importantly as a succession of different form of consciousness" , Fukuyama wrote about "the possibility that history might be at an end" . Indeed, without any changes, can we actually say that history continues?