Volume 28, Number 4 / August 2000 THE VERY IDEA OF RIGHTS Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights: Karl Mar, Wendy Brown, and the Social Function of Rights Kenneth Baynes 451 Revaluing Critique: A Response to Kenneth Baynes Wendy Brown 469 TAKING PRAGMATISM SERIOUSLY Five Myths About Pragmatism, or, against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence Eric A. MacGilvray 480 In Defense of Disunity: Pragmatism, Hermeneutics, and the Social Sciences Keith Topper 509 REVIEW ESSAYS Of Democracy, Discourse, and Dirt Virtue: Developments in Recent Critical Theory Wellmer, Endgames: The Irreconcilable Nature of Modernity. Essays and Lectures Rosenfeld and Arato, eds. Habermas on Law and Democracy: Critical Exchanges Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Communication Romand Coles 540 Common Sense, Judgment, and the Limits of Political Theory Fleishacker, A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith Biener, Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit: Essays on Contemporary Theory Gunnell, The Order of Discourse: Philosophy. Social Sciences, and Politics Jardine, Speech and Political Practice: Recovering the Place of Human Responsibility Coates, The Claims of Common Sense: Moore, Wittgenstein, Keynes and the Social Sciences Hammond, Human Judgment and Social Policy: Irreducible Uncertainty, Inevitable Error, Unavoidable Injustice Leslie Paul Thiele 565