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“How Well Disposed Would You Have to Become to Yourself and to Life”

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Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy That Will Be Able to Present Itself as an Enlightenment — Part I

"How Well Disposed Would You Have to Become to Yourself and to Life"

Prolegomena to any future philosophy that may arise as an Enlightenment — Part I

25.3.26

Michael Meyer-Albert

The philosopher Fukuyama, born in Chicago in 1952, is primarily known for his essay The End of History? from 1989¹. There, he held that the “end of history” assumed by Hegel had finally arrived with the looming collapse of the Soviet Union. He saw the triumphant liberal Western democracies as the final stage of the process of historical progress. In 1992, Fukuyama published his main work based on this essay: The End of History and the Last Man, in which he combines Hegel's thesis with Nietzsche's diagnosis of the “last man.” Our author is also referring to this book. It caused controversial debates worldwide and continues to provoke today. — Do we really live after the “end of history”? Our author agrees with Fukuyama: While with the form of liberal democracy a final embodiment of the course of history has been achieved, history has been continuing as a conflict within this embodiment. World history has become history of liberalism.

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The following text explores the hypothesis that every philosophy of the zeitgeist finds its onset at something that bothers it: in the beginning, there was disgruntlement. This something is interpreted here as an illiberally disgruntled enlightenment, which is embodied in the current “polarization.” With Francis Fukuyama's help, this trail is explored and the drama of the recognition of modern Enlightenment is described. The philosopher Fukuyama, born in Chicago in 1952, is primarily known for his essay The End of History? , “The end of the story? “, from 19891, known. There, he held that the “end of history” assumed by Hegel had finally come with the looming collapse of the Soviet Union. He saw the triumphant liberal Western democracies as the final stage of the process of historical progress. In 1992, Fukuyama published his main work based on this The End of History and the Last Man (“The End of History and the Last Man”), in which he combines Hegel's thesis with Nietzsche's diagnosis of the “last person.” Our author is also referring to this book. It caused controversial debates worldwide and continues to provoke today. — Do we really live after the “end of history”? Our author agrees with Fukuyama: While the form of liberal democracy was a final embodiment of the course of history, the story continues as a conflict within this embodiment. World history becomes history of liberalism.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Historic Uprising in Bangladesh

The Will to Revolution

Historic Uprising in Bangladesh

The will to Revolution

28.3.25

Estella Walter

For a total of 20 years, Bangladesh was ruled by an iron, authoritarian regime under Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the first president since the country's independence from Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But within a very short period of time, nationwide uprisings of such violence broke out in July 2024 that they overthrew Hasina after just one month and drove him into exile. How did this victory come from below and how does Nietzsche help us The will to power and continue his elaborations by Foucault and Deleuze to understand this historic moment?

For a total of 20 years, Bangladesh was ruled by an iron, authoritarian regime under Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the first president since the country's independence from Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But within a very short period of time, nationwide uprisings of such violence broke out in July 2024 that they overthrew Hasina after just one month and drove him into exile. How did this victory come about from below and how do Nietzsche's will to power and his elaborations by Foucault and Deleuze help us understand this historic moment?