“History Ends” or “History Begins Anew”? Analyzing the Theoretical Framework and Realistic Significance of Dahrendorf's Conflict Theory

ZHANG Qingxiong

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236302

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ZHANG Qingxiong. “History Ends” or “History Begins Anew”? Analyzing the Theoretical Framework and Realistic Significance of Dahrendorf's Conflict Theory[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(3): 33-50. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236302

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ZHANG Qingxiong. “History Ends” or “History Begins Anew”? Analyzing the Theoretical Framework and Realistic Significance of Dahrendorf's Conflict Theory[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(3): 33-50. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236302

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“History Ends” or “History Begins Anew”? Analyzing the Theoretical Framework and Realistic Significance of Dahrendorf's Conflict Theory

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236302

ZHANG Qingxiong^,

Fudan University

Received Date: 2023-05-30
Accepted Date: 2023-08-15

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Ralf Dahrendorf passed away in 2009, but his “conflict Theory” is particularly relevant today. He absorbed Marx's theory of class and social relations, and integrated Parsons' theory of structure and function and Popper's critical rationalism, so his thought has broad inclusiveness. Dahrendorf was quite observant of social realities.He focused on a series of major problems in industrialized societies since the second half of the twentieth century, such as class conditions, social conflicts, limits to growth and globalization, and sought sound mechanisms for resolving these intractable problems.This paper takes his criticism of Fukuyama's “the end of history” as the key point to show the realistic significance of his conflict theory in the analysis of the world situation, and then attempts to clarify the theoretical framework of Dahrendorf's conflict theory.Finally, combined with his analysis of today's social dilemma, this paper comments on the value and significance of his conflict theory in dealing with social realistic problems.
- Dahrendorf,
- Fukuyama,
- conflict theory,
- history begins anew

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