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.
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