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Tables of Contents for Ideals and Illusions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
10
I Deconstruction and Critical Theory
Philosophy and Social Practice: Richard Rorty's ``New Pragmatism''
11
32
Postscript: Ironist Theory as a Vocation
35
8
The Critique of Impure Reason: Foucault and the Frankfurt School
43
40
Postscript: Politics and Ambiguity
76
7
Heidegger and Critical Theory: The First Encounter
83
14
The Politics of the Ineffable: Derrida's Deconstructionism
97
30
Postscript: The Politics of Friendship
120
7
II Reconstruction and Critical Theory
Reason and Rationalization: Habermas's ``Overcoming'' of Hermeneutics
127
25
Complexity and Democracy: The Seducements of Systems Theory
152
29
Practical Discourse: On the Relation of Morality to Politics
181
19
Critical Theory and Political Theology: The Postulates of Communicative Reason
200
17
Notes
217
30
Index
247