Philosophy, history, and critique -- Rage against reason -- Incommensurability and otherness revisited -- Heidegger's silence?: ethos and technology/Foucault: critique as a philosophic ethos -- Serious play: ethical-political horizon of derrida -- Allegory of modernity/postmodernity: habermas and derrida -- One step forward, two steps backqard: rorty on liberal democracy and philosophy -- Rorty's liberal utopia -- Reconciliation/rupture