ABSTRACT
The old ideologies had seemingly fallen by the wayside when the new version of "the end of history" first made its appearance. Fascism stood discredited, communism was tumbling, the spirit of the 1960s had waned, and only the classical liberal idea was left standing. Belief in its fusion of free markets with representative democracy, so disparaged during the I930S, stood at its zenith. The New York Times, in fact, presented the cover of its
This text served as the basis of a talk given at the University of Leipzig on 7 June 2001.
