In his article ‘The End of History?’, originally published in the journal The National Interest in Summer 1989, Frances Fukuyama argued that ‘the triumph of the West, of the Western idea, is evident first of all in the total exhaustion of viable systemic alternatives to Western liberalism.’[1] It was in this respect that history had reached its ‘end’: the course of history in the sense of ‘mankind’s logical evolution’ had arrived at ‘the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government’ (Fukuyama, p. 4). Despite all the suggestion of apocalypse in its title, Fukuyama’s essay is actually quite upbeat. The answer to all our problems is already here. And yet, in his final paragraph, he strikes a melancholy note: „David Anderson: THE ‘END OF HISTORY’ REVISITED: Christa Wolf’s ‘Kassandra’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Sexing the Cherry’“ weiterlesen