The End of History from Political Utopian view. Between Fukuyama and Jameson
Abstract
This paper will interpret the meaning of the end of history, announced in different ways by Fukuyama and Jameson from a Modern political and Utopian angle. From various fragments by utopist novels, it is clear that imagined ideal societies designed during Modernity were based in the end of History. This end would conclude with the circumscription of time just to the present. With the aid of philosophical and sociological bibliography it seems clear to me that similar temporary patterns appear today. Posmodernity –often described as the time where utopia dies– shows in its temporality features considered as utopic (or dystopic following G. Orwell) in the recent past. That paradox speaks about continuities and breaks between Postmodernity and Modernity. Also the conclusion is that renovating utopia requires to abandon the project of history as something finished.
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