POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Francis Fukuyama, French Revolution
12 Dec 2017
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Kojeve: russian aristocrat, as french bureaucrat played impt role in charles dugals. Will be no new ideas that matter. Was(cid:374)"t fre(cid:374)(cid:272)h re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) itself (cid:271)ut pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples of fre(cid:374)(cid:272)h revolution: everyone is free and has certain rights. Fordist america mass production economy america. Us were headed in same path as they seemed so different: although history seens eurocentric, freedom and equality spread in different revolutions throughout the world chinese revolution, haitain revolution, Article written in 1989 ussr still exists. Prediction: at end of democracy, liberal democracy will be triumphant. Urrent competitors illegitimate: radical islam, radical nationalism. History = struggle of narratives about how the world should oragnize itself, no new competitors about how world should be organized liberal democracy reigning over all. Chauvinism/bellicose: belief that ones own national has right to victory/superiority, facist vision of nationalism almost becomes organizing principle of state where it has to be superior to other nations.
