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The End of History and What Comes After: The Long Search for the Final Society

The End of History and What Comes After: The Long Search for the Final Society

Montgrony, Robert

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PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

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ISBN13: 9798170635825
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if humanity really could find the final form of society?

From Plato's ideal republic and religious visions of a perfected order to Hegel, Marx, liberal democracy, and Francis Fukuyama's famous end of history thesis, thinkers have repeatedly imagined that political development might have a destination.

The End of History and What Comes After traces that long search for a final society through communism, fascism, the Cold War, nationalism, China, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economics, network states, ecological politics, and transhumanism.

Why are theories of historical inevitability so attractive? Why do supposedly obsolete ideas keep returning? Why do prosperous societies remain dissatisfied? And what happens when new technologies begin changing the assumptions on which established political systems were built?

A history of grand theories, confident predictions, inconvenient realities, and humanity's recurring suspicion that this time, at last, the future has been settled.

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