Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-145) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction: the retreat from high theory -- Science, ideology, and 'local knowledge' -- Knowledge and human interests: Habermas, Lyotard, Foucault -- Textuality, difference, and cultural otherness -- Ethics and alterity: Derrida on Levinas -- 'The dream of a purely heterological thought...' -- Textual encounters: the prison-house of 'discourse' -- Scepticism and Enlightenment: Kristeva contra post-structuralism -- Persons, not subjects: community and diference -- Of truth and falsehood in an extra-textual sense -- Postscript: 'the undefined work of freedom'-Foucault and