The End of History?

IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many regions of the world. Most of these analyses lack any larger conceptual framework for distinguishing between what is essential and what is contingent or accidental in world history, and are predictably superficial. If Mr. Gorbachev were ousted from the Kremlin or a new Ayatollah proclaimed the millennium from a desolate Middle Eastern capital, these same commentators would scramble to announce the rebirth of a new era of conflict.

• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  The New Social Theory Reader

• Publication date

  1989-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Political Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/j.ctt2005tk7.19
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