Fukuyama’s end-of-history and Huntington’s clash-of-civilizations theses are complementary, not opposed
Evidence
The two essays dovetail beautifully. For about four years, the West was in a state of limbo, not quite knowing what to do with itself after Fukuyama (remembering his Hegel and forgetting his Karl Schmitt) declared it triumphant, until Huntington (forgetting his Hegel and remembering his Karl Schmitt) manufactured a new global enemy for it. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 77
Categorization
- XREF: Directly connects to earlier curated notes distinguishing Huntington’s religious framing of non-Western peoples.
- DEFINE: Clarifies how the two famous theses function together and fixes the chronological hinge between 1989 and 1993.