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Historied Thought; Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West; endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux; and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the philosophy of the future; addressing topics such as the historical character of thinking; the intelligible world as artifact; the inseparability of theory and practice; and the reliability of a world without assured changeless structures.Through the use of numbered theorems that construct an interlocking argument; Margolis carefully articulates his distinctive ideas in the context of work by Quine; Davidson; Putnam; Rorty; Derrida; Habermas; and Foucault. The discussion includes all the central topics of the philosophical tradition: from science to morality; from language to world; from persons to objects; from nature to culture; from causality to purpose; from change to history. What emerges is an argument against essentialism; one that champions the historicity of thought and cultural constructionism.