{"product_id":"the-end-of-history-barry-cooper-9781442639362","title":"The End of History: An Essay on Modern Hegelianism","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistory ended, according to Hegel according to Koj钁e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Koj钁e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442639369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442639362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d","brand":"Barry Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44066219065599,"sku":"9781442639362","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7b59f25-e58e-4ba2-913f-9366e3d88acd.jpg?v=1685405978","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-end-of-history-barry-cooper-9781442639362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}