This paperback edition contains a new greatly expanded bibliography of Habermas's work.


Ideals and Illusions

by Thomas McCarthy

Published 22 May 1991
These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jurgen 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 "unavoi