Preface
Brief of the Argument
Plan of the Book
Acknowledgments
1. The System and its Nemesis
Encroachments
Hyperrationality
2. The Mutation of Meaning
Some Examples of the Disconnect
The Instability of Language
3. Idea Contagion
Memetics
Memetics and Postmodernism
The Prospects for Rational Sorting
4. Contextualism
Situation and Intentionality
Practical Discourse
A Perspective on Change
5. Policy Inquiry
Epistemology as Abstract Univeralism
Facts Are Word-Shaped Things
Self-Referential Systems
Perspectival Small t Truth
6. Democratic Discourse
The End of Universals?
Monologic Discourse: An Oxymoron
Vibrant Pluralism
An Ethos of Discourse
References
Index