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After postmodernism : an introduction to critical realism / edited by Jose Lopez and Garry Potter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Continuum Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical realism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion.The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis.After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the f
- Contents:
- How to change reality: story vs. structure
- a debate between / Rom Harre and Roy Bhaskar
- The intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds / Philip Hodgkiss
- Reading Foucault as a realist / Frank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss
- The ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem / Charles R. Varela
- Where is social structure? / John Scott
- Metaphors of social complexity / Jose Lopez
- Sociology and epistemology / Jean Bricmont
- Critical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings / Christopher Norris
- Why are sociologists naturephobes? / Ted Benton
- Critical realism and political ecology / Tim Forsyth
- Keeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace / Pam Higham
- Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing / Sue Clegg
- Truth in fiction, science and criticism / Garry Potter
- Reconsidering literary interpretation / Philip Tew
- Vaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" / Francis Barker
- Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self / Justin Cruikshank
- Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking / David Ford
- Descartes' individualistic epistemology
- a critique / Allison Assiter
- Social movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems / Jenneth Parker
- Do realists run regressions? / Douglas V. Porpora
- Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political / Robert Fine
- Critical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction / Bertell Ollman
- On real and nominal absences / Andrew Collier.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611291594
- 9781281291592
- 1281291595
- 9781847141064
- 1847141064
- OCLC:
- 229379874
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