Bøger i Critical Realism: Interventions Routledge Critical Realism serien

Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon. This Dictionary seeks to redress this problem. It explains the key concepts and developments, and includes essays which use the notions in important areas, thereby demonstrating the appropriate use of the concepts in action.

This book develops a multi-disciplinary theory of citizenship, exploring the human abilities needed for its practice. It then argues that capitalism impedes the nurturing of these abilities.

Critical Realism and Marxism addresses controversial debates, revealing a potentially fruitful relationship; deepening our understanding of the social world and contibuting towards eliminating barbarism in contemporary capitalism.

Construes a social theory of the nation-state and rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted. This book provides an account of the nation-state's historical development and global challenges via an analysis of the writings of social theorists.

An assessment of the work of American critical realist Maurice Mandelbaum, and the relation of his thought to contemporary critical realism. It focuses on how his theories relate to those of Roy Bhaskar. It is suitable for students with an interest in critical realism, or the history of philosophy.

This work articulates a systematic critical realist response to a quest for more emancipatory methodologies in international relations. Heikki Patomaki here establishes a way out of the international relations problematic which has puzzled so many thinkers and scholars since the 1800s.

The book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief, demonstrating that the three pillars of Critical Realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion.

Being and Worth argues that beings both in the natural and human worlds have worth in themselves by extending recent depth-realist philosophy to the question of values.

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Provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. This collection features essays that consider some of the conceptual and philosophical contentions that Fraser's model has provoked.

Critical Realism and Marxism addresses controversial debates, revealing a potentially fruitful relationship; deepening our understanding of the social world and contibuting towards eliminating barbarism in contemporary capitalism.

Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon. This Dictionary seeks to redress this problem. It explains the key concepts and developments, and includes essays which use the notions in important areas, thereby demonstrating the appropriate use of the concepts in action.