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Looking over Your Shoulder: the Onlookers of Hegel's Phenomenology

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  • Jason S. Caro

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The vexed issue of the end of history has again emerged with Fukuyama's celebrated text. But Fukuyama is only the latest in a line of such Hegelian thinkers. How have such philosopher‐historians come to know that history has ended? In returning to their source, Hegel's Phenomenology, these theorists are found to ruthlessly fashion the very history that they relate. Using techniques akin to Foucaultian disciplines, the historical onlookers impersonate, disinform and reconfigure unwilling individuals to advance in history. This guidance becomes especially problematic when it is shown that the Hegelian onlookers are ignorant of their profound impact on history. When such influence is combined with ignorance the thinkers of the end of history appear quite harmful.

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  • Jason S. Caro, 1997. "Looking over Your Shoulder: the Onlookers of Hegel's Phenomenology," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 45(5), pages 914-927, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:45:y:1997:i:5:p:914-927
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00119
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