Philosophy and Freedom Derrida, Rorty, Habermas, Foucault

Name: Philosophy and Freedom Derrida, Rorty, Habermas, Foucault
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ISBN: 9780253213631

ISBN-10: 0253213630

ISBN-13: 9780253213631

Edition: 2000

Authors: John McCumber

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John McCumber asserts that the true target of philosophical liberation is to break the structures of domination that have been encoded in western civilisation. Because of the emancipatory nature of their thought, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty challenge domination, but they do not see their challenge clearly and it does not rise to the level of conscious critique in their writings. Using Nietzsche's writings on "the great liberation" as a starting point, McCumber captures the valuable, but elusive insights of these thinkers and places them into the larger, pluralistic movement toward philosophical freedom. Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty belong to a transitional generation of…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

John McCumber is Professor of German at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Metaphysics and Oppression (IUP, 1999) and Philosophy and Freedom (IUP, 2000).



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: The Great Demarcation



Challenges to Ousia in the Work of Jacques Derrida



The Privilege of Presence and the Derridean Knot



Ousiodic Structure vs. the Speech Community in Richard Rorty



Irony and Redescription As Challenges to Ousia



Centrality As A Challenge to Ousia in Jurgen Habermas



Universality, Centrality, and the Theory of Communicative Action



Michel Foucault's Challenges to Ousla



Challenge and Description in Foucault



The Great Demargation and the Situation of Freedom


Notes


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Index