"The book discusses the crucial issues of our times: instability of meanings and problems concerning our practice. What has been termed as postmodern moment in our contemporary life and literature is taken on with a spirit of appreciation and subversion. The triptych of postmodernity, namely, Rorty, Derrida and Habermas, is pitted face to face, sideways and in the crossroads, only to gather fragments of our failing wisdom, that of a blurring of philosophy and non-philosophy. The recurring controversy is: do they meet at the ...
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"The book discusses the crucial issues of our times: instability of meanings and problems concerning our practice. What has been termed as postmodern moment in our contemporary life and literature is taken on with a spirit of appreciation and subversion. The triptych of postmodernity, namely, Rorty, Derrida and Habermas, is pitted face to face, sideways and in the crossroads, only to gather fragments of our failing wisdom, that of a blurring of philosophy and non-philosophy. The recurring controversy is: do they meet at the infinite or do they just cross each other out in a nihilistic surge to freedom and otherness? An abandonment of truth and justification by Rorty and Derrida, the pillars of modern epistemology, in favour of radical undecidability of meanings and Habermas recalling of norms and values that seek to establish truth and right in an unfinished journey towards a projected unity of fragmented worlds of reason force us to see us having two different goals: one that of open
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