end of history
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Etymology
[edit]Coined by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and popularized by Francis Fukuyama in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man.
Proper noun
[edit]- (politics) A political or philosophical concept positing that a certain political, economic or social system will be the last one that humanity develops.
- 1992, Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man:
- I argued that liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of history" and as such constituted the "end of history".