The Stranger, September 13th, 2007
THE LAST MAN DVDS by Charles Mudede Stranger than Paradise dir. Jim Jarmucsh (Criterion) $39.99 In 1989, neocon philosopher Francis Fukuyama published an essay "The End of History?" (three years later it was turned into a book, The End of History and the Last Man). The point of Fukuyama's paper (and book) was that American democracy marked the end of the road ^or a" social and political development. Other forms of human rule or governing found in their terminal point in the U.S., the leading symbol and champion of liberal democracy. Here, time had come to a standstill (paradise) and the ...
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