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Der Band befasst sich mit theoretischen Ansätzen und Fragen der Messung von Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen in den sozialen Strukturen moderner Gesellschaften und der Wirkungen neuerer Prozesse der Globalisierung. Es wird gefragt, wie soziale Strukturen und Institutionen und deren Wandel in verschiedenen Gesellschaften sinnvoll miteinander verglichen werden können. Außerdem wird untersucht, wie sich die „Globalisierung“ und ihre Wirkungen empirisch erfassen und messen lassen. Weiter geht es um die Frage, inwieweit die Entwicklung von Gesellschaften im Kontext der Globalisierung durch Konvergenz oder eher durch Persistenz oder Divergenz gekennzeichnet ist. Es wird zudem auch analysiert, inwieweit sich in einigen Regionen Europas möglicherweise sogar grundsätzlich neue Typen von Institutionen oder institutionellen Konstellationen herausbilden, und wie sich dies empirisch erfassen lässt.
List of contents
Foreword Roger Walsh Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Deep Need for Integrative Metatheory in the 21st-Century 1. Beyond Nature and Humanity: Reflections on the Emergence and Purposes of Metatheories 2. Healing the Half-World: The Emancipatory Potential of Meta-Level Social Science 3. Developing a Complex Integral Realism for Global Response: Three Meta-Frameworks for Knowledge Integration and Coordinated Action 4. Towards a Complex, Integral Realism 5. Rethinking the Intellectual Resources for Addressing Complex 21st-Century Challenges: Towards a Critical Realist Integral Theory 6. After Integral Gets Real: On Meta-Critical Chiasma of CR and IT Michael Schwartz 7. Why I'm a Critical Realist 8. Contributions of Embodied Philosophy to Ontological Questions in Critical Realism and Integral Theory Afterword
About the author
Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014) was the chief architect of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and infl uential works, including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Reclaiming Reality, Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., Reflections on meta-reality and From Science to Emancipation. Prior to his death, while this book was in preparation, he was founding chair of the International Centre for Critical Realism and World Scholar at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London.
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is the founder of MetaIntegral, a network of organizations that apply integrative metatheories to global challenges. He is also the executive editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and editor of the SUNY Series in Integral Theory.
Nicholas Hedlund is executive director of the Integral Research Center (www.integralresearchcenter.org) and a PhD researcher at University College London, Institute of Education (University of London), where he is conducting emancipatory social research into the philosophical, cultural and psychological dimensions of climate change.
Mervyn Hartwig is founding editor of the Journal of Critical Realism and principal author and editor of the Dictionary of Critical Realism.
