The Era of Re-Civilization? | Unknown Knowns

Philip Pilkington and David Dusenbury dismantle Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis — tracing it from its Hegelian and Kojèvian roots through to its spectacular collision with contemporary geopolitics.

As China rises, Russia endures, and the liberal West struggles with demographic decline and institutional decay, Pilkington and Dusenbury ask whether the real question facing both East and West isn't the end of history but the revival of civilization. Drawing on Hegel, Confucius, Adam Smith, and the strange story of how a Stalinist philosopher helped design the European Common Market, they explore what "re-civilization" might look like — and whether the West and China could pursue it together.