Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One . . . . . . Introduction: Blueprint, Scaffolding, and Main Construction -- Chapter Two . . . . . . The Unsuccessful Quest for Certainty: From Classical Greece to Postmodernist, New World ( dis) Order -- Chapter Three . . . . . . Various Reds: Marx, Historical Materialism, Critical Theory, and the Openness of History -- Chapter Four . . . . . . Saved by a Method: Science, Dewey, the Progressive Protest- And a Whiff of Reconstruction -- Chapter Five . . . . . . Existentialist Contingency, We May Just Be On Our Own- And Camus's Solidarity -- Chapter Six . . . . . . Liberationists: Freire and Various Spiritualists -- Chapter Seven . . . . . . The Politics of Identity: The Struggle for Human Dignity Is Expanded -- Chapter Eight . . . . . . Back to Postmodernism: Problems and Possibilities- With a Touch of Green -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Index.