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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
An Era of Suspicion

Key Objectives

Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:

1.

Explain what Jurgen Habermas has to say about the human sciences, human identity, ideology, and the ideal speech situation.

2.

Describe what Michel Foucault meant by discourse and what he thought an archaeology of discourse reveals about notions such as truth, reality, and progress.

3.

Distinguish the structuralist methodology of Ferdinand Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss from the deconstructive approach of Jacques Derrida.

4.

Explain how Richard Rorty unites American liberalism with Continental literature and philosophy through the medium of American pragmatism and what this implies for concepts like objectivity and objective truth.








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