Fukuyama\'s profound inquiry leads the reader to the question of whether humanity will eventually reach a stable state in which it is at Last completely satisfied, or whether there is something about the condition of humans that will always lead them to smash this ultimate equilibrium and plunge the world back into chaos.
Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.. -- The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama\'s prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War.
Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world.
Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate.
Fukuyama\'s profound inquiry leads the reader to the question of whether humanity will eventually reach a stable state in which it is at Last completely satisfied, or whether there is something about the condition of humans that will always lead them to smash this ultimate equilibrium and plunge the world back into chaos
