POLB72H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ernst Bloch, Francis Fukuyama, Rand Corporation
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Liberal triumphalism, despair, and the politics of hope. Respo(cid:374)di(cid:374)g to ma(cid:396)(cid:454)"s ghost: fuku(cid:455)a(cid:373)a, ra(cid:449)ls a(cid:374)d blo(cid:272)h: marx is regarded as one of the most powerful critics of liberalism in the history of western political thought. How should we exorcize his ghost: francis fukuyama will argue in 1989, against marx, that liberal capitalism, and not communism, is the end of history. Ma(cid:396)(cid:454)"s thought, as (cid:449)ell as the (cid:449)a(cid:455)s i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the (cid:449)ill to d(cid:396)ea(cid:373) of a (cid:271)ette(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld (cid:449)as e(cid:272)lipsed i(cid:374) (cid:271)oth (cid:272)apitalist a(cid:374)d state so(cid:272)ialist so(cid:272)ieties. Politi(cid:272)al theo(cid:396)(cid:455), fo(cid:396) blo(cid:272)h, (cid:396)ests upo(cid:374) a (cid:862)p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple of hope(cid:863). Liberalism is the end of history in the absence of any serious ideological contenders, and the liberal state becomes the (cid:862)u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal ho(cid:373)oge(cid:374)ous state. (cid:863) co(cid:374)sta(cid:374)t is (cid:448)i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ated! John rawls: rescuing liberalism from marx by radicalizing liberalism: rawls is considered the greatest anglo-american political theorist of the twentieth-century. A lexically prioritized scheme of basic political liberties.
