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Title: Critical Realism Condition: New Subtitle: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy Author: Andrew Collier Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0860916022 EAN: 9780860916024 ISBN: 9780860916024 Publisher: Verso Books Genre: Science Nature & Math Topic: Law & Politics, Philosophy & Spirituality Release Date: 17/04/1994 Description: The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European thought for four centuries. In this readable introduction to his work, Andrew Collier expounds and defends the main concepts of Bhaskar's philosophy. The first part of this book looks at the philosophy of experimental science and discusses the stratification of nature, showing how biological structures are founded on chemical ones yet are not reducible to them. This paves the way, in part two, for a discussion of the human sciences which demonstrates that the world they study is also rooted in and emergent from nature. Bhaskar's concept of an "explanatory critique" (an explanation that is also a criticism, not in addition to, but by virtue of, its explanatory work) is discussed at length as a key concept for ethics and politics. Collier concludes by looking at the uses to which critical realism has been put in clarifying disputes within the human sciences with particular reference to linguistics, psychoanalysis, economics and politics. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 218mm Item Length: 137mm Item Width: 23mm Item Weight: 380g Release Year: 1994
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