Roy Bhaskar

Reclaiming Reality

A Critical Approach to Contemporary Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

This series of linked essays is an accessible intervention in the current debates about realism which are of increasing significance on both sides of the Atlantic. 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. Elaborating his own highly original critical realist perspective on society, nature, science and philosophy itself. Roy Bhaskar shows how this new 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 our time — from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and Habermas. It advances novel and convincing resolutions of many traditional philosophical problems. Providing a straightforward and stimulating introduction to current debates in the philosophy of science and of social theory, for the interested lay reader and student alike, this book will be of particular value for all those concerned with the socialist emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780860919513
• ISBN-10: 086091951X
• Artikelnr.: 23511031

Autorenporträt

Roy Bhaskar

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"Bhaskar has provided what is, arguably, the most comprehensive, the most rigorous and the best available account of the sciences, both natural and social." -Gerry Webster (Biology Forum 1989)

"Breathtaking in the scope and power of its immanent critique of contemporary philosophy." -Andrew Sayer (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 1990)

"Bhaskar has fashioned a wholly new context for argumentation about social ontology . . . His work merits enormous critical attention in all the human sciences." -John Shotter (History of the Human Sciences 1991)

"Contains perhaps the finest brief historical and methodological assessment in English of the major issues in Marx's philosophy." -Michael Sprinker (New Left Review 1992)