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This figure “takes LSD” in the title of Dean and Zamora’s book about Michel Foucault (“foo-KOH”) and neoliberalism. This “blinking” figure asks, “What is longing? What is a star?” and hops upon the earth like a flea in a world where “whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.” In a later book, this title figure is read as a depiction of the banishment of megalothymia (“mega-lo-THIGH-mee-uh”) from public life. (10[1])A crowd begs to be turned into this figure in the prologue of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s portrayal of this self-satisfied, comfortable (-5[1])antithesis of the Übermensch (10[1])is taken as a critique (10[1]-5[1])of life under an egalitarian social order in a book (-5[1])partly titled for this figure, which builds (-5[1])on Alexandre Kojève (“ko-ZHEV”) to theorize the “victory” of (10[1])liberal (10[1])democracy. For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])this (10[1])figure (10[1]-5[1])who titles a Francis (10[1])Fukuyama (-5[1])book (10[3])along with the “end (10[2])of history.” (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[3])

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