1990-1991
ARCHIVED EVENTS

Francis Fukuyama
(The Rand Corporation), "The End of History Reconsidered"

Joseph Cropsey
(University of Chicago), "The End of History in the Open- Ended Age?: A Critique of the Fukuyama Thesis"

Response: Louis Hunt (Michigan State University)

Jean Bethke Elshtain (Vanderbilt University), "The Women’s Movement and The Post-Cold War World"

Response: Catherine Zuckert (Carleton College)

Christopher Lasch (University of Rochester), "The Age of Limits: The End of Progress?"

Response: William Kristol (Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle)

CONFERENCE

“Democracy and the Idea of Progress:
A Reconsideration”

THEME

“Perspectives on The End of History”

“Living Issues in the Thought of Leo Strauss:
Fifty Years after Natural Right and History”

1991 CONFERENCE:

Democracy and the Idea of Progress: A Reconsideration

Paper: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. (Harvard University), "Early Modern Thought"
Response: Anthony J. Parel (University of Calgary)

Paper: Susan Shell (Boston College), "Kant and Neo-Kantianism"
Response: Bernard Yack (University of Michigan)

Paper: Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University), "Hegel and Neo-Hegelianism"
Response: Patrick Riley (University of Wisconsin)

Paper: Alan Gilbert (University of Denver), "Marx and Neo-Marxism"
Response: Eugene Genovese (The Univesity Center, Georgia)

Paper: Richard Rorty (University of Virginia), "Dewey and Neo-Pragmatism"
Response: Charles L. Griswold, Jr. (Howard University)

Paper: Werner Dannhauser (Cornell Univesity), "Nietzsche, Spengler, and "Declinism"
Response: Francis Fukuyama (The Rand Corporation)