In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir

在本書中，法蘭西斯．福山（Francis Fukuyama）首次梳理了自己跨越五個變革時代的政治與思想演進。我們跟隨他的足跡，從康乃爾大學時期圍繞在保守派學者艾倫・布魯姆（Allan Bloom）身邊的學生圈，走進華府與蘭德公司（RAND Corporation）的權力殿堂，並深入他與格達費（Muammar Qaddhafi）和中國權貴精英等世界領袖的私密對話。

福山也談及自己的家族歷史，包括第二次世界大戰期間，親屬與其他日裔美國人一同被送入拘留營的經歷。

更令人意外的是，他以十分坦率而個人的筆觸，回顧那些迫使自己重新檢視政治信念的重要時刻，其中最關鍵的，莫過於他因反對伊拉克戰爭而公開與新保守主義（Neoconservatism）決裂的轉折。

然而本書並非一部傳統意義上的回憶錄。它將個人生命史與政治史交織在一起，透過一位思想家的生命歷程，映照出過去半個世紀民主與自由主義所經歷的動盪與困境。

福山重新回到學術生涯中最重要的核心概念，並進一步深入與發展之。包括承認（recognition）、激情（thymos）、信任（trust）、身分認同（identity）、人性（human nature）、制度（institutions）以及「最後一人」（the Last Man）等，結合自己的人生經驗與開創性的學術研究，深入剖析二十一世紀所面臨的種種危機。

這是一部迫切、深刻且不可忽視的重要著作。福山在《在最後一人的國度》(書名暫譯)中，讓我們看見一位重要思想家如何在歷史劇烈震盪的當下，不斷反思、修正與探索，並試圖展望人類仍可能抵達的未來。

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir.

Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark, bestselling works of political philosophy and history. Here, for the first time, he charts his political and intellectual evolution across five transformative decades. We follow him from the circle of students around the conservative intellectual Allan Bloom at Cornell, into the halls of power in Washington and at the RAND Corporation, and into private conversations with world leaders from Muammar Qaddhafi to China’s powerful elite. Fukuyama touches on his family’s story, including his relatives’ internment during World War II along with other Japanese Americans. And, in surprisingly personal terms, he reflects on the experiences that led him to reevaluate his own thinking, most notably his dramatic public break with the neoconservative movement over the invasion of Iraq.

More than a conventional memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man is personal history as political history―the story of a life that illuminates the troubled fate of democracy and liberalism over the last fifty years. Returning to and developing the concepts that have been central to his work―recognition, thymos, trust, identity, human nature, institutions, and the Last Man―Fukuyama brings the depth and richness of personal experience and pathbreaking scholarship to illuminate the crises of the twenty-first century.

Urgent, brilliant, and essential, Fukuyama’s In the Realm of the Last Man reveals a major thinker grappling in real time with the convulsions of history, and looking ahead to our possible future.