[lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and Danto
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:22:25 -0800 (PST)
Fukuyama says he got it from Marx, who (he also notes)
lifted it from Hegel. Danto was on his own admission
also influenced by Hegel. Well, I guess Eric caught
them now.
O.K.
--- Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> _The End of History_
>
> Has anyone considered that Fukuyama was simply
> piggybacking his title (if not his total concept)
> from Arthur C. Danto's popular and hugely
> influential essay, from the mid-80s, called THE
> END OF ART?
>
> As Fukuyama does eight years later, Danto reprises
> a Hegelian thesis. Danto means the "end of art" to
> be the end of so-called "master narratives" in art
>
> As F says of history (ahem..8 years later) Danto
> maintains that art will continue, but the defining
> characteristics that allow art to extinguish their
> competitors, and create stylistic "progress" have
> disappeared from art, that art has no special way
> to be received.
>
> For Danto, after linear progress in artistic
> styles has been overthrown, anything goes and
> pluralism reigns. Fukuyama (ahem...8 years later)
> says that the dialectics that define civilizations
> will disappear and capitalist pluralism will reign.
>
> So maybe Fukuyama was at a cocktail party
> somewhere and overheard an aesthetics professor or
> artist describing Danto's essay (and later, book)
> and thought...."Hmmm, maybe I can make a name for
> myself by applying this same schtick to history?"
>
>
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