Reclaiming reality : a critical introduction to contemporary philosophy
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Reclaiming reality : a critical introduction to contemporary philosophy
(Classical texts in critical realism)
Routledge, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780415454933
Description
Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform; and provides an enlightening intervention in current debates about realism and relativism, positivism and poststucturalism, modernism and postmodernism, etc.
Elaborating his critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself, Roy Bhaskar shows how this perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable ideologies of the Right, and at the same time, to clear the ground for a reinvigorated Left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers of recent years-from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas; and it advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.
Now with a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, this book continues to provide a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in philosophy and social theory for the interested lay reader and student alike. Reclaiming Reality will be of particular value not only for critical realists but for all those concerned with the revitalization of the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Critical Realism, Social Relations and Arguing for Socialism 2. Realism in the Natural Sciences 3. Feyerabend and Bachelard: Two Philosophies of Science 4. Philiosophies as Ideologies of Science: A Contribution to the Critique of Positivism 5. On the Possibility of Social Scientific Knowledge and the Limits of Naturalism 6. Scientific Explanation and Human Emancipation 7. Dialectics, Materialism and Theory of Knowledge 8. Rorty, Realism and the Idea of Freedom 9. What is Critical Realism? Notes
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: hbk ISBN 9780415563703
Description
Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform; and provides an enlightening intervention in current debates about realism and relativism, positivism and poststucturalism, modernism and postmodernism, etc.
Elaborating his critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself, Roy Bhaskar shows how this perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable ideologies of the Right, and at the same time, to clear the ground for a reinvigorated Left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and thinkers of recent years-from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas; and it advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems.
Now with a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, this book continues to provide a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in philosophy and social theory for the interested lay reader and student alike. Reclaiming Reality will be of particular value not only for critical realists but for all those concerned with the revitalization of the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.
Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation and Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom. He is an editor of the recently published Critical Realism: Essential Readings and is currently chair of the Centre for Critical Realism.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Critical Realism, Social Relations and Arguing for Socialism 2. Realism in the Natural Sciences 3. Feyerabend and Bachelard: Two Philosophies of Science 4. Philiosophies as Ideologies of Science: A Contribution to the Critique of Positivism 5. On the Possibility of Social Scientific Knowledge and the Limits of Naturalism 6. Scientific Explanation and Human Emancipation 7. Dialectics, Materialism and Theory of Knowledge 8. Rorty, Realism and the Idea of Freedom 9. What is Critical Realism? Notes
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