Studies in Continental Thought

Derrida, Rorty, Habermas, Foucault

By: John McCumber

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Derrida, Foucault, Habermas and Rorty belong to a transitional generation of philosophers whose philosophy, in the wake of Hegel and Heidegger, has become a project of liberation rather than a search for truth. But precisely what does philosophy liberate us from? Continuing the work he elaborated in "Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger's Challenge to Western Philosophy", John McCumber asserts that the true target of philosophical liberation is to break structures of domination that have been encoded in western civilization. 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. McCumber elicits the various gestures with which each of these thinkers confonts philosophy's structures of domination and discovers that Derrida cannot differentiate what in his own discourse is truly liberating from what is banal or unintelligible, Rorty cannot substantiate his claims that the ironist can escape history altogether, Habermas cannot shake loose from a universalism that he neither needs nor can vindicate, and Foucault cannot explain how his accounts of something as evanescent as power can be "descriptive". 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.

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Acknowledgments	p. IX
Abbreviations	p. XI
Introduction: The Great Demarcation	p. 1
Challenges to Ousia in the Work of Jacques Derrida	p. 20
The Privilege of Presence and the Derridean Knot	p. 34
Ousiodic Structure vs. the Speech Community in Richard Rorty	p. 49
Irony and Redescription As Challenges to Ousia	p. 61
Centrality As A Challenge to Ousia in Jurgen Habermas	p. 75
Universality, Centrality, and the Theory of Communicative Action	p. 91
Michel Foucault's Challenges to Ousla	p. 110
Challenge and Description in Foucault	p. 124
The Great Demargation and the Situation of Freedom	p. 141
Notes	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 185
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