Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory

by Thomas A. McCarthy

Book Overview

These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, J?rgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed.McCarthy examines the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262631458
• ISBN13: 9780262631457
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher