It worth noting that Fukuyama spent a chapter or two of his book exploring how history could ‘re-start’, even after its ‘end’. That is, he postulated that people in modern democracies could grow bored with the peace and prosperity of their systems, and eagerly efface them in order to satisfy their thymotic desires.

Anyway, Fukuyama’s favor for the speculative metaphysics of Hegel and the quasi-Hegelian Kojeve were very strange. Hegel was fundamentally a spiritualist—the ‘real is the rational and the rational is the real’ because history was supposed to be the dialectical thought process of some vast supernatural entity, of which humans were mere sub-units.

If it weren’t outside of 25 years alrady, I would have nominated John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice for fashionable silly book.