Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Apologia for Academic Radicals -- Part 1 Powers, Norms, and Vocabularies of Contestation -- Chapter 1 Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions -- Chapter 2 Michel Foucault: A "Young Conservative"? -- Chapter 3 Foucault's Body Language: A Posthumanist Political Rhetoric? -- Part 2 On the Political and the Symbolic -- Chapter 4 The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political? -- Chapter 5 Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy -- Part 3 Gender and the Politics of Need Interpretation -- Chapter 6 What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender -- Chapter 7 Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Need Interpretation -- Chapter 8 Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late Capitalist Political Culture -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.