PART I: AN OLD QUESTION ASKED ANEW. Our Pessimism -- The Weakness of Strong States I -- The Weakness of Strong States II, or, Eating Pineapples on the Moon -- The Worldwide Liberal Revolution. PART II: THE OLD AGE OF MANKIND. An Idea for a Universal History -- The Mechanism of Desire -- No Barbarians at the Gates -- Accumulation without end -- The Victory of the VCR -- In the Land of Education -- The Former Question Answered -- No Democracy without Democrats -- PART III: THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION. In the Beginning, a Battle to the Death for Pure Prestige -- The First Man -- A Vacation in Bulgaria -- The Beast with Red Cheeks -- The Rise and Fall of Thymos -- Lordship and Bondage -- The Universal and Homogeneous State -- PART IV: LEAPING OVER RHODES. The Coldest of All Cold Monsters -- The Thymotic Origins of Work -- Empires of Resentment, Empires of Deference -- The Unreality of Realism -- The Power of the Powerless -- National Interests -- Toward a Pacific Union -- PART V: THE LAST MAN. In the Realm of Freedom -- Men without Chests -- Free and Unequal -- Perfect Rights and Defective Duties -- Immense Wars of the Spirit.

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.