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The events two-full centuries after Hegel have brought one essential element of his “end of history” into extreme doubt and contradiction. It completely overturns the claim of “progress in history,” to one ending in nihilism: the values of ‘superiority’ of the ‘West’ are capsized into sheer devaluation by Nietzsche. Any claim of progress to a culmination of history only hides the extreme malaise of contemporary man in global affairs. Modern ideologies, enframed within Hegelian historicism, are illusory and no longer admireable practices. They are now seen as major sources of the on-going destructive and denigrating activities of the present-day. They are the encroaching seeds of nihilism. Nietzsche, through the historical consciousness of “eternal return,” seeks to overcome the modern nihilistic tendencies. A new creative and liberating form of history is affirmed that reinvigorates a meaningful vitality back into life, which “ends” the malignant modern Western view of the “end of history” through progress.   

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