The End of History - Senior Lecturer in Music Barry Cooper - Books - University of Toronto Press - 9781442639362 - December 15, 1984
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Senior Lecturer in Music Barry Cooper
The End of History

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History ended, according to Hegel according to Kojève, with the establishment and proliferation in Europe of states organized along Napoleonic lines: rational, bureaucratic, homogenous, atheist. This state lives in some tension with the popular slogan that helped give it birth: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. But there is now also totalitarianism - the only new kind of regime, according to Arendt, created since the national state. Man is now in charge of nature, technology, and society; much of political life has become a gavotte elaborating the meaning of the Napoleonic model.



This interpretation, however opposed it seems to common sense, has been influential, particularly in France where the course of existentialism is unintelligible without taking it into account. Professor Cooper argues that it is inherently plausible and examines the arguments of Hegel and Kojève to reveal its consistency and explanatory power. And he applies it to more contemporary events - the experience of the atomic bomb, the Gulag system of extermination, and the growth of multinational corporations.



The work concludes by pulling together the presuppositions and theories of the totalitarian system, the Hegelian version of the Napoleonic state, and our contemporary technological society. Overall, the reader will find here a complete and challenging presentation of how the modern world understands its collective life.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 15, 1984
ISBN13 9781442639362
Publishers University of Toronto Press
Pages 400
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   585 g
Language English  

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