| 词条 | The Man of Reason |
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| name = The Man of Reason | image = File:The Man of Reason, 1985 edition.jpeg | caption = Cover of the first edition | author = Genevieve Lloyd | country = United Kingdom | language = English | subject = Western philosophy | publisher = Methuen | pub_date = 1984 | media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback) | pages = 138 (original edition) | isbn = 978-0415096812 }} The Man of Reason: "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy (1984; second edition 1993) is a book about the association between maleness and reason in western philosophy by the Australian philosopher Genevieve Lloyd. The work received positive reviews. It has been called a twentieth century classic of feminist thought, and is widely read in the Nordic countries. Summary{{expand section|date=March 2017}}Lloyd discusses the relationship between gender and ideals of rationality, and the related issues of relativism and cultural relativism, and addresses the "maleness" of "character ideals centred on the idea of Reason", which in her view has implications for how gender difference is understood. She discusses philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir, beginning with a discussion of her The Second Sex (1949).{{sfn|Lloyd|2004|page=xvii–xix, 1–2, 7–10, 39–52, 70–73, 86–87, 93–102}} Publication historyThe Man of Reason was first published by Methuen in 1984. It was reprinted in 1986. A second edition was published in 1993, and reprinted in 1995.{{sfn|Lloyd|2004|page=iv}} ReceptionMainstream mediaThe Man of Reason received a positive review from K. Russell in Choice and a mixed review from Astrid M. O'Brien in Library Journal.{{sfn|Russell|1985|page=1348}}{{sfn|O'Brien|1985|page=100}} Russell called the book "an extensive, careful historical analysis of the claim that Western standards of rationality and morality are masculine in orientation".{{sfn|Russell|1985|page=1348}} O'Brien wrote that the book that it was "well researched" but also "wordy, repetitious, and tedious to read."{{sfn|O'Brien|1985|page=100}} Academic journalsThe Man of Reason received a positive review from Naomi Scheman in The Women's Review of Books.{{sfn|Scheman|1995|pages=15–16}} The book was also reviewed by the philosopher Virginia Held in Ethics,{{sfn|Held|1986|pages=652–654}} the philosopher Mary Tiles in Philosophy,{{sfn|Tiles|1986|pages=414–418}} Kathryn Jackson in Signs,{{sfn|Jackson|1987|pages=165–168}} Ruby Riemer in Women & Politics,{{sfn|Riemer|1987|pages=85–87}} Sara Shute in Journal of the History of Philosophy,{{sfn|Shute|1987|pages=464–465}} and Marjean D. Purinton in Southern Humanities Review,{{sfn|Purinton|1995|pages=185–187}} and discussed by Martina Reuter and Laura Werner in NORA: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies.{{sfn|Reuter|Werner|2000|pages=175–179}} Scheman described the book as "brilliantly concise". She credited Lloyd with being "admirably sensitive to the historical changes in the characterization of reason", and argued that while most academic philosophers believe that "the current competing pictures of the normatively rational self are in theory gender-neutral", Lloyd made a strong case to the contrary in her "utterly devastating" book. She considered it "paradoxically rooted in the very norms of rational discourse whose nature, function, and origin" Lloyd questioned and predicted that many academic philosophers would not be convinced by Lloyd's arguments. She wrote that Lloyd's attempt to show that "discourses based on inegalitarian projects and interests are unable to live up to their own norms" is a strategy largely inspired by the work of Karl Marx, a philosopher not discussed by Lloyd. She endorsed Lloyd's view that Beauvoir's attempt to put Sartre's and Hegel's "notions of transcendence" to feminist use is problematic, since transcendence is in its origins transcendence of the feminine.{{sfn|Scheman|1995|pages=15–16}} Reuter and Werner wrote that the book "has prompted new ways of reading the history of philosophy and has become a feminist classic widely read in the Nordic countries."{{sfn|Reuter|Werner|2000|pages=175–179}} Evaluations in booksS. A. Grave wrote in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1995) that The Man of Reason has been considered a twentieth century classic of feminist thought.{{sfn|Grave|1995|page=68}} Lloyd argued in the second edition of The Man of Reason that the work had sometimes been misunderstood and that it had been criticized for failing to distinguish between true philosophical thought and "sexist metaphor". She acknowledged that her views had changed since the book's publication.{{sfn|Lloyd|2004|pages=vii–viii}} She described The Man of Reason as an "overview of the successive alignments between maleness and ideals of reason throughout the history of western philosophy" in her anthology Feminism and History of Philosophy (2002).{{sfn|Lloyd|2002|page=24}} See also
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