History After History

The End of History is the end of a religion

This research note is part of the Clockless Clock book project.

I have been trying to chase down a seductive thought: What if the Hegel-Fukuyama idea of the End of History is something like Darwin’s idea of natural selection?

The Darwinian century began with The Origin of the Species in 1859 and ended with the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953. H…