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Engaging with the World - Agency, Institutions, Historical Formations (Hardcover, New)
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Engaging with the World - Agency, Institutions, Historical Formations (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ontological Explorations Routledge Critical Realism
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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 on some cultural and structural changes
involving Western societies after the world economic crisis of
2008, from the point of view of Critical Realism. Global society is
often regarded as disrupting identities and blurring boundaries,
one which entails giving up ideas of structure and fixity.
Globalization supposedly introduces a "liquid" era of fluidity
where everything is possible, and anything goes. Nevertheless, its
current dynamics are developing into a harder reality: wars,
economic crisis, the haunting risk of pandemics, the ever worsening
food supply crisis, and the environmental challenge. These social
facts call for a dramatic shift in the optimistic cosmopolitan mood
and the thought that we can build and rebuild ourselves and our
world as we please, at least for the most developed countries. The
challenges we face produce new forms of social life and individual
experience. They also require us to develop new frameworks to
analyze emergent contexts, institutional complexes and
morphogenetic fields, and new ways to understand human agency and
the meaning of emancipation. The book broadly falls into three
parts: The first, "Social Ontology and a New Historical Formation",
deals with mainly social ontological issues, insofar as they are
connected to social scientific and public issues in the emerging
society of the XXI century. The second, "Being human and the
adventure of agency", is concerned with the way human beings adapts
to the "new world" of "our times", and comes up with innovative
models of agency and socialization. The third, "The
constitutionalization of the new world", explores critical realist
perspectives, as compared to system-theoretical ones, on the issue
of global order and justice. In all of this, the challenge is to
engage with this "new world" in a meaningful way, a task for which
a realist mind set is badly needed. Critical realism provides a
strong theoretical framework that can meet the challenge, and the
book explores its contribution to making sense of, and coming to
terms with, this historical formation.
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