Table of Contents

Preface.

1. Philosophy, History and Critique.

2. The Rage Against Reason.

3. Incommensurability and Otherness Revisited.

4. Heidegger's Silence?: Ethos and Technology.

5. Foucault Critique as a Philosophic Ethos.

6. Serious Play: The Ethical-Political Horizon of Derrida.

7. An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida.

8. One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Rorty on Liberal Democracy.

9. Rorty's Liberal Utopia.

10. Reconciliation/Rupture Appendix: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds.

Index.

About the Author

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Reviews

'This is the best book yet written on the tension between leftist political initiatives ... and post-modernist philosophical thought. Bernstein's discussions of Foucault, Derrida and Heidegger are models of careful commentary and fair-minded criticism.' Richard Rorty, University of Virginia 'Bernstein's book is an important contribution to perhaps the only aspect of the fashionable post-modernity debate which is still comparatively underexposed, the political.' Political Studies