The Play of Reason : : From the Modern to the Postmodern / / Linda Nicholson.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Modernity and the Problem of History
  • 1. Women, Morality, and History
  • 2. Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic
  • 3. Feminist Theory: The Private and the Public
  • 4. Interpreting "Gender"
  • 5. The Myth of the Traditional Family
  • II. Postmodernism and the Problem of Connection
  • 6. Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism
  • 7. Bringing It All Back Home: Reason in the Twilight of Foundationalism
  • 8. To Be or Not to Be: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition
  • 9. Emotion in Postmodern Public Spaces
  • Notes
  • Index