ABSTRACT
Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism.
It explores the following themes:
* transcendental realist
* the theory of explanatory critique
* dialectics
* Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I The self: method and ethics
part |2 pages
Part II Social science and critique after the linguistic turn
chapter 4|15 pages
Critical realism: the difference it makes, in theory
The difference that it makes, in theory
part |2 pages
Part III Method, politics and policy
chapter 6|17 pages
Underlabouring and unemployment: notes for developing a critical realist approach to the agency of the chronically unemployed J U ST INCRUICKSHANK
Notes for developing a critical realist approach to the agency of the chronically unemployed
chapter 9|18 pages
Cultural studies: towards a realist intervention GA RY M AC LEN NA NANDPETERTHOMAS
Towards a realist intervention
part |2 pages
Part IV Political economy and globalism
