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Zusatztext "Matches Bhaskar's striking originality with a clarity that should make his ideas more widely available. The reach of comparison with other thinkers! past and present! is truly impressive and very helpful. The emphasis on change! interaction! negativity and totality is particularly relevant for the explosive period our world has just entered." -Bertell Ollman! New York University! USA"A major contribution to the understanding of a difficult but extremely important philosophical position. The expository and critical discussion is sustained at a very high level."- William Outhwaite! University of Newcastle! UK"Elegant! thoroughgoing! accessible! genuinely illuminating. It brilliantly elucidates dialectical critical realism's ethics and how it trumps poststructuralism in particular and irrealism in general."- Mervyn Hartwig! Editor! Journal of Critical Realism Informationen zum Autor Alan Norrie has recently taken up a Chair in Law at the University of Warwick. He was previously Drapers' Professor of Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College and Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at King's College London. He has a longstanding interest in critical realist philosophy and is President of the International Association for Critical Realism. Klappentext Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. This text is essential reading for all serious students of social theory, philosophy, and legal theory. Zusammenfassung Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. This text is essential reading for all serious students of social theory, philosophy, and legal theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Intro: Natural Necessity, Being and Becoming 2. Accentuate the Negative 3. Diffracting Dialectic 4. Opening Totality 5. Constellating Ethics 6. Metacritique I: Philosophy's 'Primordial Failing' 7. Metacritique II: Dialectic and Difference 8. Conclusion: Natural Necessity and the Grounds of Justice...
