POL S101 Lecture Notes - Jacques Derrida, Francis Fukuyama, Marxist Feminism
18 Nov 2013
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The end of history: francis fukuyama, the end of history and the last man (1992, liberalism defeated communism. Ideological warfare between liberalism and communism (cold war) Liberalism will be the only ideology: history can no longer be interpreted according to a grand ideological narrative, criticism: You cannot look at history as nothing more than an ideological competition: not an ideology itself but a critique of ideologies, recognizes the limits of master narrative type thinking, all ideologies are from the enlightenment. Liberty, fraternity, free speech: challenged the modern assumption of reason. Ability to penetrate to the essential truth of things. Correctiveness for some of the excess of modernity. Possibility of seeing the world differently allows for the possibility to live in the world differently. Chapter 6 - changes to the dominant ideologies. Feminism: assumes that the status of women in society is unequal to that of men, oppression of women needs to be identified and eradicated, multiple strands of feminism:
