end of history

English

Etymology

Popularized by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, based on an article he wrote in 1989.

Proper noun

the end of history

  1. (politics) A political or philosophical concept positing that a certain political, economic or social system will be the last one that humanity develops.
    • 1992, Francis Fukuyama, “By Way of an Introduction”, in The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, →ISBN, page xi:
      […] I argued that liberal democracy may constitute the “end point of mankind's ideological evolution” and the “final form of history” and as such constituted the “end of history”.
    • 2014 September 1, Timothy Stanley, Alexander Lee, “It's Still Not the End of History”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      Twenty-five years ago this summer, Francis Fukuyama announced the “end of history” and the inevitable triumph of liberal capitalist democracy.

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