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Zusatztext "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) Informationen zum Autor Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Reclaiming Reality and Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom. He is an editor of the recently published Critical Realism: Essential Readings and is currently chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. Klappentext Reclaiming Reality provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. 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; and provides an enlightening intervention in current debates about realism and relativism, positivism and poststucturalism, modernism and postmodernism, etc. Zusammenfassung Offers an introduction to the influential multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as critical realism. This book provides an intervention in debates about realism and relativism, positivism and poststucturalism, and modernism and postmodernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
