The Postmodern, Democracy, History

The book is primarily a discussion of the complicated interpretations of, among others, Jean-François Lyotard, Gianni Vattimo, and Richard Rorty on the status and future of philosophy of history. The conceptions of history developed by European culture between the 18th and 19th centuries intended to discover the sense of human circumstances starting from a prefiguration of the future. The decline in this conception has often been interpreted as the “end of history”. Yet it may be considered as the opportunity and the challenge to seek a different way of thinking of history, its sense, and that of the future.