In the summer of 1989, Francis Fukuyama presented his vision of the end of history. Since liberal-democratic capitalism is the best possible social order, he argued, no further progress was possible, other than through the preferred order’s gradual realization around the world. Slavoj Žižek is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.





