Fukuyama

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Francis Fukuyama almost solely in connection with one thesis: the "end of history", proclaimed after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Hegel's name1. As early as 2012, in radio programmes devoted to Michel Clouscard, he cites him as the one who gave this name to the present stage2. He reads the phrase as the announcement of the triumph of liberalism, a triumph that conceals capitalism3. He thus contrasts the announced "liberal paradise" with what is actually being realised, "the hell of capitalism"4. Philosophically, he sees in it a caricature of Hegel, as if there were no longer any negative at work in history5. The name comes up again in 2024 and 2025, in answers to audience questions about the Hegelian end of history and about naturalist ideology. From one session to the next, his position does not change: Fukuyama serves him as a reference point for situating contemporary liberal ideology against the Hegelian conception of history.

1. 1L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 37:08
2. 2Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 16 Jul 2012 · 3:30
3. 3#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 16:55
4. 4#15 • Retour aux logiques du sujet23 Jul 2020 · 11:59
5. 5#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 1:15:25

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.