The Pentagon, you might say, is perfectly willing to make do with post-historical battle space. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism] Reference
And a post-historical city is, I fear, a city about which one can predict with some certainty that it will die. From Wordnik.com. [Road Trip: Part II] Reference
“In the post-historical period,” concludes Fukuyama, “there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sands of Empire] Reference
There ` s the world of Europe which he calls a post-historical, post-modern world, but then there is the world in which the laws of the jungle still prevail, and he would like Europeans to be able to operate in both realms. From Wordnik.com. [Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order] Reference
Nowadays, though, his interest in languages had shifted away from communicative utility; away, even, from revelatory rhetoric; had moved toward what he regarded as the future of language in the post-historical age: an environment in which words, relieved of some of their traditional burden, might be employed not to describe realities but to create them. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
Life was post-historical long before Francis Fukuyama's. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
Armenian Genocide, titled "1915 within its pre - and post-historical periods: denial and confrontation," will be held in Ankara. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net] Reference
The disrespect is partly the fault of an education system which is making the English as post-historical as they were already post-religious. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
A symposium on the Armenian Genocide, titled "1915 within its pre - and post-historical periods: denial and confrontation," will be held in Ankara on April. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net] Reference
The same may be said of politics, particularly world politics, and if the word can still be used in the current 'postmodern' and 'post-historical' epoch, destiny. From Wordnik.com. [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference
On April 24-25, a symposium on the Armenian Genocide, titled "1915 within its pre - and post-historical periods: denial and confrontation," will be held in Ankara. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net] Reference
Throughout the decade, and most especially as it began to wane, I returned to this theme of the wondrous oddity, the sheer impossibility of an age of such post-historical tranquility. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
Throughout the decade, and most especially as it began to wane, I returned to this theme of the wondrous oddity, the sheer impossibility of an age of such post-historical tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
While a minority of the human population will be, as Francis Fukuyama would put it, sufficiently sheltered so as to enter a "post-historical" realm, living in cities and suburbs in which the environment has been mastered and ethnic animosities have been quelled by bourgeois prosperity, an increasingly large number of people will be stuck in history, living in shantytowns where attempts to rise above poverty, cultural dysfunction, and ethnic strife will be doomed by a lack of water to drink, soil to till, and space to survive in. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Anarchy] Reference
A few of the traces of Amelia Earhart’s post-historical life surface between the pages of this book. From Wordnik.com. [2 BOOKS by REBECCA LOUDON] Reference
A post-historical paradise of peace and relative prosperity, the realisation of Immanuel Kant's "perpetual peace". From Wordnik.com. [Inaugural lecture of the Parliamentary Millennium Project] Reference
In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history. ". From Wordnik.com. [Kishore Mahbubani: Obama in Asia: West Looks East After "The End of History"] Reference
I used Hobbes to describe what I see as the rest of the world, that while Europe has this oasis of, you know, post-historical paradise, the rest of the world is still more like a Hobbesian world, where you have your Saddam Husseins and the Kim Jong Ils and the Chinas and others, who don ` t accept the rules, necessarily, of the international order that we value and the Europeans value, and therefore, who must be met, in a sense, at the level of the Hobbesian reality, not -- you can ` t treat Hobbesian world with a Kantian policy. From Wordnik.com. [Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order] Reference
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