Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides
the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential
multi-disciplinary and international body of thought, known as
critical realism. It is designed to "underlabour" both for the
sciences, especially the human sciences, and for the projects of
human emancipation which such sciences may come to inform; and
provides an enlightening intervention in current debates about
realism and relativism, positivism and poststucturalism, modernism
and postmodernism, etc.
Elaborating his critical realist perspective on society, nature,
science and philosophy itself, Roy Bhaskar shows how this
perspective can be used to undermine currently fashionable
ideologies of the Right, and at the same time, to clear the ground
for a reinvigorated Left. Reclaiming Reality contains powerful
critiques of some of the most important schools of thought and
thinkers of recent years?from Bachelard and Feyerabend to Rorty and
Habermas; and it advances novel and convincing resolutions of many
traditional philosophical problems.
Now with a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, this book
continues to provide a straightforward and stimulating introduction
to current debates in philosophy and social theory for the
interested lay reader and student alike. Reclaiming Reality will be
of particular value not only for critical realists but for all
those concerned with the revitalization of the socialist
emancipatory project and the renaissance of the Marxist theoretical
tradition.
Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical
realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works
including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of
Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation and
Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom. He is an editor of the recently
published Critical Realism: Essential Readings and is currently
chair of the Centre for Critical Realism.
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