This fifth volume of the "Continental Philosophy" series addresses the problem of a contemporary world devoid of foundations. It seeks to explore a post-foundational context of subverted truths, shattered identities, and fragmented cultures.

Introduction Part 1. The Truth 1. The Truth of Hermeneutics Gianni Vattimo 2. Truth as Fundamental and Truth as Foundational Basil O'Neill 3. Science as Foundational Robert P. Crease 4. Deletion or Deployment:Is that any way to treat a sign? Herbert Hrachovec Part 2. Subjectivity 5. Autonomy as Foundational Richard White 6. Intentionally, Ontology and Empirical Thought Tony O'Connor 7. Rehabiliting the I Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa 8. Critical Exchanges: The Symbolic and Questions of Gender Judith Butler Part 3. Culture 9. Foundations and Cultural Studies Gayatri Spivak 10. Grund and Abgrund: Questioning poetic foundations in Heidegger and Celan James Hatley 11. Generosity and Forgetting in the history of Being Gelan A.Johnson 12. Tenochtilan Alphonso Lingis 13. Easy becoming uneasy Images: A photogrammic solarization of Caves James R.Watson