Timeline for Grothendieck on topological vector spaces
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| Sep 28, 2014 at 12:47 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Dec 21, 2012 at 2:11 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @Joel:Thanks for clarifying Fukuyamas title. I thought Fukuyama was also stating if not explicitly, then implicitly that liberal democracies were the endpoint of the evolution of political forms of a state? Quite, except when the "I" is an influential person in the field, remarks such as these are more influential and drive people away. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:01 | comment | added | Joël | However I agree with your larger point, that there are many statements of the form "X is dead", and that very often they don't mean much more that "I, personally, am done with X". One exception: Nietzche's "God is dead", which means something very precise and deep (and I believe, true) about the evolution of the European culture. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 14:56 | comment | added | Joël | For the record, Fuuyama never said that "history is dead". The title of his book, "the end of history and the last man" is a reference to two well-known phrases of Marx and Nietzche respectively. The thesis of that book is not that "history is dead", but something very simple, namely that liberal democracies are much more robust that anyone expected say 50 or 100 years ago, including marxists, fascists, and liberal democrats alike. Indeed, it is not easy to find a country that was a liberal democracy at any point of the last century and is not one now; OTOH, many countries have become so. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 12:07 | comment | added | kjetil b halvorsen | History will never die, before the human race dies! | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 2:34 | history | answered | Mozibur Ullah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |