From Francis Fukuyama's Theory of the End of History to Jean Baudrillard's Concept of the Non-event

The present article endeavors to compare and contrast two conflicting theories about the concept of the end, i.e. Francis Fukuyama's theory of the end of history and Jean Baudrillard's concept of the end. According to the neo-conservative American theorist Fukuyama, history has reached its ultimate end of Hegelianuniversal freedom. Therefore, the West is reaching the end of history corollary to modern natural science and his simplistic interpretation of Hegel's concept of freedom as a “struggle for recognition”.Baudrillard's stance on the concept of the end, on the other hand, is in stark difference with Fukuyama's reflections of the Promised Land manifest in liberal democracy.Contrary to Francis Fukuyama, Baudrillard proclaims that as a consequence of the velocity engendered by advances in modern science and technologies, the event becomes less important than the contest for its digital broadcast or interpretation.Indeed, he avers that the construction of the non-event is a major objective of the global world order. He claims that this non-occurrence of events precipitates the end of history.