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Linda Nicholson's The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 16, Number 2, Spring 2001
- pp. 80-85
- Article
- Additional Information
Nicholson's political philosophy is distinctively grounded in history. The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern argues that such "grounding" plays as much of the foundational role demanded of philosophy as can coherently be played by anything--and that such a foundation is, pragmatically, enough. I focus on two moves: (1) thinking historically as a model for thinking cross-culturally, and (2) historicizing "all the way down," as a way of exorcising the demand for the ahistorical grounding of epistemology.