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. A crowd begs to be turned into this figure in the prologue of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s portrayal of this self-satisfied, comfortable antithesis of the Übermensch is taken as a critique of life under an egalitarian social order in a book partly titled for this figure, which builds on Alexandre Kojève (“ko-ZHEV”) to theorize the “victory” of liberal democracy. For 10 points, name this figure who titles a Francis Fukuyama book along with the “end of history.” ■END■
ANSWER: last man [or last human being; or letzter Mensch; or the ultimate man or the final man; accept The End of History and the Last Man or The Last Man Takes LSD; prompt on man or human or Mensch]
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