[lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and Danto
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:17:20 -0500
So there is a respectable intellectual tradition
behind all these topoi. But still, there could be
other prognostications-cum-theories, with their
fashionable "End of" strategies like:
The End of Cooking: As global modalities overtake
restaurateurs and domestic chefs alike, cuisines
will cease to compete, and we'll see more and more
fusion restaurants.
The End of Dancing: The is no more progression of
"in" dances. One may partake of ballroom, frug,
moonwalk, hopak, barn dance, cake walk, disco,
mambo, jitterbug, or pas de quatre because there
is no "master terpsichore" with which to engage.
Pluralism reigns.
The End of Endings: Every eschatology has been
dominant in its time, including End of Days, Heat
Death of Entropy, Nietzschean Riverrun, Return of
the Enlightened Superaliens. No one view of
finality may be said to supersede others, and a
grand plurality of endings, allows to finish where
we see....
Endlessly posting,
Eri
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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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