The Darkness at the End of History.

Liberalism, history, Fukuyama, conservatism, globalization, pessimism Here, despite his partial disavowals, Fukuyama's thinking may well be following a trajectory found in some forms of post-war political realism that sought to craft visions of a "realistic" or even "conservative" liberalism capable of meeting these challenges. Keywords: liberalism; history; Fukuyama; conservatism; globalization; pessimism EN liberalism history Fukuyama conservatism globalization pessimism 794 801 8 10/04/22 20221001 NES 221001 The fate of sophisticated arguments that become best-selling books seems to be a descent into caricature and cliché. The forces of nationalism and resentment that Fukuyama thought (or perhaps hoped)[9] would be tamed by market liberalism and "tolerant" nationalism[10] have gained force from liberalism's very successes and evolution - something we might even see as an alternative dialectic directly subverting his guardedly optimistic liberalism. [Extracted from the article]

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