Critical Realism and the Social Sciences : : Heterodex Elaborations /

Critical Realism and the Social Sciences : : Heterodex Elaborations / / ed. by Jon Frauley, Frank Pearce.

Critical realism is a distinct school of thought in philosophy and the social sciences that has been expanding and growing in significance over the past three decades. It offers important insights into the nature of both our social and natural world, and the nature of the social sciences by challeng...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Albritton, Robert,
Benton, Ted,
Chodos, Howie,
Curtis, Bruce,
Datta, Ronjon Paul,
Day, Richard,
Ehrbar, Hans,
Engelskirchen, Howard,
Frauley, Jon,
Hunt, Alan,
López, José Julián,
Manwaring, John,
Murphy, Raymond,
Pearce, Frank,
Potter, Garry,
Sayer, Andrew,
Sismondo, Sergio,
Woodiwiss, Anthony,
HerausgeberIn:
Frauley, Jon,
Pearce, Frank,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2007
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • 1. Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Methodological and Epistemological Preliminaries
  • 2. Bhaskar's Critical Realism: An Appreciative Introduction and a Friendly Critique
  • 3. For Realism, and Anti-Realism
  • 4. Critical Realism and God
  • 5. Rescuing Reflexivity: From Solipsism to Realism
  • 6. More Than Straw Figures in Straw Houses: Toward a Revaluation of Critical Realism's Conception of Post-structuralist Theory
  • 7. Thinking across the Culture/ Nature Divide: An Empirical Study of Issues for Critical Realism and Social Constructionism
  • 8. Beyond Cognitive Critiques: Getting Real about Politics
  • 9. Objectivity and Marxian Political Economy
  • 10. Why Is This Labour Value? Commodity-Producing Labour as a Social Kind
  • 11. The Relation between Marxism and Critical Realism
  • 12. Understanding Why Anything Matters: Needy Beings, Flourishing, and Suffering
  • 13. The Expulsion of Foucault from Governmentality Studies: Toward an Archaeological-Realist Retrieval
  • 14. From Foucault's Genealogy to Aleatory Materialism: Realism, Nominalism, and Politics
  • 15. Gadamer's Minimal Realism
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index

Similar Items