Introduction: The Great Demarcation -- 1. Challenges to Ousia in the Work of Jacques Derrida -- 2. The Privilege of Presence and the Derridean Knot -- 3. Ousiodic Structure vs. the Speech Community in Richard Rorty -- 4. Irony and Redescription and Challenges to Ousia -- 5. Centrality as a Challenge to Ousia in Jurgen Habermas -- 6. Universality, Centrality, and the Theory of Communicative Action -- 7. Michel Foucault's Challenges to Ousia -- 8. Challenge and Description in Foucault -- 9. The Great Demarcation and the Situation of Freedom
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index
