Abstract
Hegel proclaimed the completion of history and of philosophy, and the end of art (and, in a somewhat similar way, of religion). Since then his proclamations have been echoed many times in optimistic or pessimistic tones. The self-understanding of modernity and of post-modernity involve varieties of such claims, together with a conflictual-continuing relation to the Enlightenment dreams of progress. Working mostly from Hegel's Logic, this paper examines different structures, all of broadly Kantian origin, that might authorize the proclamation of an end of history, whether in the completion or in the exhaustion of possibilities. From our vantage point we can see that Hegel's account combines several structures which are used separately by others. These structures have different institutional consequences and different conceptions of what patrols events to keep history at its end.
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