After postmodernism : an introduction to critical realism / / edited by Jose Lopez and Garry Potter.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Lopez, Jose, 1966-; Potter, Garry, 1955-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 339 p.
• Other title: How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between /; The intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds /; Reading Foucault as a realist /; The ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem /; Where is social structure? /; Metaphors of social complexity /; Sociology and epistemology /; Critical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings /; Why are sociologists naturephobes? /; Critical realism and political ecology /; Keeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace /; Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing /; Truth in fiction, science and criticism /; Reconsidering literary interpretation /; Vaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" /; Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self /; Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking /; Descartes' individualistic epistemology--a critique /; Social movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems /; Do realists run regressions? /; Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political /; Critical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction /; On real and nominal absences /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index.
• ISBN: 0485004216; 0485006170 (pbk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jose Lopez and Garry Potter.