The Contradictions of Dignity

Francis Fukuyama Reads the Declaration of Independence

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Regular readers will note that I often revisit the work of Hegel, Kojeve, and, Fukuyama, a lineage of thinkers keyed into the primacy of the struggle for recognition.

In The End of History, Fukuyama applies his Hegelian lens on the Declaratio…