POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Second-Wave Feminism, Francis Fukuyama, Socialist Feminism
11 Mar 2014
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Francis fukuyama the end of history : fukuyama -> liberalism has won, because the ideology of communism in the context of the. Therefore liberalism will spread throughout the world. o o. Underestimates the degree of political and institutional variety in the world. Interprets that society cannot be based around a narrative ideology. Postmodernism: challenge to modern assumptions about reason, no single idea can encompass all facets of social and political worlds. Celebrates differences, subjective nature of ideologies, and no universalism or foundations: critique of ideologies, not an ideology itself. The search for a central answer is futile, because the world is too diverse. Seen as simply opposing what is around us, without an alternate solutions: in response, it is not pm"s fault that the world is not the way modernists wish it to be, pm gives a more realistic approach. Instead of how it ought to be (like modernism), pm tells us how it actually is.
