Readings
For my elective Utopias and Dystopias (an elective subject that I find makes me think about stuff I find interesting just for the hell of it rather than for any pre-determined purpose laid out by the subject, which is exactly what I think an elective should be), I have read - I mean really read - The End of History and the Last Man. I'm slowly improving on this whole "critically reading" as opposed to just "reading" thing I think. The amount to which contemporary neo-conservative foreign policy depends on its arguments would be a fascinating area to study, but is unfortunately (a) beyond the scope of the essay I'm reading it for, and (b) already addressed to some degree in John Gray's "Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia", which I'm also reading for the essay.
Gray is a long-time critic of Fukuyama, and I'm currently going through an earlier version of Gray's critique "Global Utopias and clashing civilizations: misinterpreting the present" written in 1998. From reading the two scholars' works to date, I rather get the impression that they're talking past each other. That's ... a little disappointing. I mean, I think I could do better than that.
Haven't had much interest in maintaining online presence of late. Regaining interest right when I need to be diving headfirst into uni work and not wasting time online. Oh well, back to it.
Gray is a long-time critic of Fukuyama, and I'm currently going through an earlier version of Gray's critique "Global Utopias and clashing civilizations: misinterpreting the present" written in 1998. From reading the two scholars' works to date, I rather get the impression that they're talking past each other. That's ... a little disappointing. I mean, I think I could do better than that.
Haven't had much interest in maintaining online presence of late. Regaining interest right when I need to be diving headfirst into uni work and not wasting time online. Oh well, back to it.