“The book makes an in-depth study of the contention of postmodernists vis-à-vis that of modernists. Postmodernism does not appear after modernism as many think since both are philosophies of modern times. As a result, it considers the idea of knowledge of postmodernists in the light of modernists’ view.
It makes a thorough study of Foucault’s idea of self as an agent in relation with others against the modernists’ idea of a rational, abstract, and isolated self. Also, the possible reaction of a postmodernist to Habermases’s idea of consensus is analysed in much details.
In so doing, the volume probes into the philosophical stance of Austin, Derrida, Wittgenstein, Marx, Nietzsche, Lyotard, Margolis, McCawley, Merleau-Ponty, Ross, Saussure, Searle, Strawson, Tagore, and Eco, among others. The book thus gives a brief sketch of what postmodern philosophy is.”