Reality and Self-Realization

Mingyu Seo

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar's A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has been evolved as one of the new developments in the ar... Lees meer

The Formation of Critical Realism

Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar - the originator of critical realism (and the later philosophy of me... Lees meer

The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined

Priscilla Alderson

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• The second volume of Priscilla Alderson's popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By... Lees meer

Critical Realism and Housing Research

Julie Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housi... Lees meer

Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking

Kathryn Dean

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of c... Lees meer

Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy

John Mingers

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for... Lees meer

The Contradictions of Love

Lena Gunnarsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality offers a robust and multifaceted theoretical account of how, in cont... Lees meer

Dialectic and Difference

Alan Norrie

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. That... Lees meer

Childhoods Real and Imagined

Priscilla Alderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a ... Lees meer

Childhoods Real and Imagined

Priscilla Alderson

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• "This book is unusually rewarding in that its author has pulled off the rare trick of providing deep philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to a ... Lees meer

What's Critical about Critical Realism?

Frédéric Vandenberghe

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory draws together 4 major articles that are situated at the intersection ... Lees meer

Relational Sociology

Pierpaolo Donati

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• 'Simultaneous invention' has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The conve... Lees meer

Enlightened Common Sense

Roy Bhaskar

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Since the 1970s, critical realism has grown to address a range of subjects, including economics, philosophy, science, and religion. It has become a co... Lees meer

The Assumption of Agency Theory

Kate Forbes-Pitt

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• The Assumption of Agency Theory revisits the Turing Test and examines what Turing's assessor knew. It asks important questions about how machines vis ... Lees meer

Engaging with the World

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view ... Lees meer

The Denial of Nature

Arne Johan Vetlesen

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed to the environmen... Lees meer

Structure, Culture and Agency

Tom Brock, Mark Carrigan, Graham Scambler

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope an... Lees meer

Making Realism Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirica... Lees meer

Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory

Brenda Farnell

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist phi... Lees meer

The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

David Tyfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a hu... Lees meer

Critical Realism

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bha... Lees meer

Crisis System

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an econom... Lees meer

Dialectic and Difference

Alan Norrie

• Paperback | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. That... Lees meer

Engaging with the World

• Hardcover | Engels | Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
• This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view ... Lees meer