Is The End of History a Great Book?

Both Kojève and Strauss, as we have seen, were theorists of reading; yet while Kojève's reading of Hegel is invoked throughout I The End of History and the Last Man i , Strauss is mentioned nowhere in the body of the text. Keywords: Fukuyama; Strauss; Kojève; Marx; Nietzsche; education EN Fukuyama Strauss Kojève Marx Nietzsche education 810 823 14 10/04/22 20221001 NES 221001 I Just as the soil needs cultivators of the soil, the mind needs teachers. To know the role Strauss played in the development of Fukuyama's argument, uninitiated pupils would have to turn to the footnotes, where they would learn that Strauss was someone of Kojève's acquaintance. Compare to Strauss's comments in "Political Philosophy of Marx", 172-3. 46 Friedrich Nietzsche, I Twilight of the Idols i , trans. Duncan Large (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 41. 47 Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach", 5. 48 Leo Strauss, "Nietzsche (1967)", ed. [Extracted from the article]