A very important book. The essays it brings together attest to the vitality of American thought....This book announces that the stakes in the question 'what is postmodernity?' are being, and will continue to be, approached, elaborated, and disputed in and by a new international intellectual community, whose sole precedent is called 'The Enlightenment.' And, now as then, this community is a community of philosophers.

John Rajchman is assitant professor of philosophy at Fordham University.

Cornel West is associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Yale Divinty School.

1. Solidarity or Objectivity?, by Richard Rorty
2. After Empiricism, by Hilary Putnam
3. Subjective and Objective, by Thomas Nagel
4. Dewey, Democracy: The Task Ahead of Us, by Richard J. Bernstein
5. Philosophy as/and/of Literature, by Arthur C. Danto
6. Emerson, Coleridge, Kant, by Stanley Cavell
7. The Pragmatics of Contemporary Jewish Culture, by Harold Bloom
8. On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme, by Donald Davidson
9. Styles of Scientific Reasoning, by Ian Hacking
10. Mathematical Versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science, by Thomas S. Kuhn
11. A Kantian Conception of Equality, by John Rawls
12. Contractualism and Utilitarianism, by T.M. Scanlon
13. Revolutionary Action Today, by Sheldon S. Wolin