Play of Reason
From the Modern to the Postmodern
Linda Nicholson(Author)
Open University Press
Published on 1. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-335-20328-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays makes a contribution to debates on the meaning of reason in postmodern times. It offers an insight into the evolution in social theory since the early 1990s, and provides a way of understanding that evolution.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-20328-4 (9780335203284)
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Content
Part 1 Modernism and the problem of history: women, morality and history; feminism and Marx - integrating kinship with the economic; feminist theory - the private and the public; interpreting gender - the myth of the traditional family. Part 2 Postmodernism and the problem of connection: social criticism without philosophy - an encounter between feminism and postmodernism; bringing it all back home - reason in the twilight of foundationalism; emotion in postmodern public spaces.