The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern - Couverture rigide

Nicholson, Linda

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080143517X ISBN 13 : 9780801435171

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This volume brings together for the first time the highly influential essays, many of them classics, of one of the most prominent scholars in social philosophy and feminist theory. These essays provide a compelling view of many of the major trends in social theory over the past fifteen years--trends that Linda Nicholson herself helped to shape.

The Play of Reason examines the legacies of modernity in contemporary political, social, and feminist thought and the unraveling of these legacies in postmodern times. Linda Nicholson first focuses on the tension in modern social theory between attempts to recognize change and diversity and struggles to capture such change in overarching frameworks of meaning and value. She illuminates the consequences of these conflicting tendencies in relation to Marxism, feminist theory, and classical liberal accounts of the family and the state. Nicholson then asks how theory and the resolution of difference are possible after such overarching frameworks are abandoned. She shows how a pragmatic understanding of theory answers widespread fears about relativism. The Play of Reason is a powerful demonstration of a politically engaged social theory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Linda Nicholson is Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern, from Cornell, and Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080143517X
• ISBN 13: 9780801435171
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible