Preface -- by Ingrid Harris -- Notes -- POSTMODERNITY AND BEYOND -- Notes -- One: Philosophical Reason -- 1 COPING WITH NIETZSCHE'S LEGACY RORTY, DERRIDA, GADAMER -- 2 HERMENEUTICS, THE LIFEWORLD, AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF REASON (THE CASE OF CHINA) -- 3 PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS -- 4 THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC -- 5 THE PRACTICE OF THEORY/THE THEORY OF PRACTICE -- Two: Social Reason -- 6 THE POLITICS OF POSTMODERNITY -- 7 HERMENEUTICAL LIBERALISM -- 8 AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS FROM HAYEK TO GADAMER -- 9 REINTERPRETING CIVIL SOCIETY -- PROLEGOMENA TO A HERMENEUTICAL ECOLOGY -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Name index