Critical Encounters

<i>Critical Encounters</i> a study of contemporary philosophy and political and social theory inserts itself into ongoing conversation at the junctures of philosophy and political thought and modernity and post-modernism. Through dialogue and critique Fred R. Dallmayr seeks to find a viable path for political theory in the midst of contemporary discussions in philosophy and the social sciences shadowed by twentieth-century phenomenology hermeneutics critical theory structuralism pragmatism and deconstruction.