[lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and Danto
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:17:24 -0500
Omar: Fukuyama in 1989. interpreted both Hegel and
Kojeve to be saying that history would end in
liberal democracy (not capitalism).
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Just to pound this silly drum one more time.
Arthur C. Danto's "The End of Art," was first
published in 1984. The meme* was out there in the
noosphere** and Fukuyama may have simply latched
onto it.
Has anyone here actually read Hegel's _Philosophy of
History_? Recall any of the extremely racist and
bizarre things he wrote there? Seem to recall
something he wrote about "the intrinsic cruelty
and sadism of the African race." Of course, that's
_Philosophy of History_***, not the big book of
Being and Abstraction, available in both good and
bad English translations.
Old-fashioned as I am, it seems that historians
should derive notions from history, rather than
from pounding around the ionosphere with Hegel's
Phenomenology or Heideggerian reinvention of
metaphysics. And when they depart from history to
abstraction...hmmm? A few governing generalities
and ...?
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*A word only used as metaphor. There probably is
no such viable concept as a meme, a cultural
counterpart of genes, except as metaphor.
**Teilhard's term may have more viability than
"meme," especially in systems views, such as in
Ken Wilber's _A Brief History of Everything_.
***Dover edition paperback, still available as a
curiosity.
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