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The Lines of Reason

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Shane Phelan
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Abstract

Linda Nicholson's book The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern admirably integrates history and philosophy to demonstrate the historical characteristics of reason and arguments in its name. I argue that she nonetheless retains a modernist dependence on the specter of unreason to document the reasonableness of her own positions. This specter continually recreates hegemonic “reasons.” Feminist theory, I argue, should confront more fully its continued dependence on the other of reason.

Type
Author Greets Critics
Information
Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Spring 2001 , pp. 75 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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References

Fish, Stanley. 1999. The trouble with principle. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Nicholson, Linda. 1999. The play of reason: From the modern to the postmodern. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar