NOTES ON THE “END OF HISTORY” RE-THINKING THE PRESENT AS HISTORICITY

In the post-1989 world, the “end of history” established itself as the ideological frame of the neo-liberal condition. This ideology can also be described with the expression “to put an end to history”, so that people, societies, and individuals become convinced that there is no other possible world than the existing one – in other words, that they believe that reality exhausts possibility, that being and possibility are coextensive, and that the future can be nothing but the present projected in the region of the Blochian “not-yet”. Therefore, it is necessary to think again about the present as history, so that one can find its own dimension in the historical becoming, and outline in perspective the sense of a possible, alternative future.