La fine della Storia (History) e il fine della storia (story)

Una lettura decostruttiva di Francis Fukuyama e Samuel Huntington

Abstract

In this article I propose a comparative reading of two texts that have represented — and in certain respects still represent to this day — the margins of contemporary political discourse. On the one hand, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man, and on the other, The Clash of Civilizations. Through the Derridean categories of “apocalypse,” “mystagogy,” and “archeo teleology,” I hypothesize that the two texts share an idea of History, Destiny, and Historicity that is at once specular and analogous