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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: After postmodernism. London : Athlone, 2001 (OCoLC)45648380 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
José López; Garry Potter |
ISBN: | 9781847141064 1847141064 |
OCLC Number: | 229379874 |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 339 pages) |
Contents: | After postmodernism: the millennium / Garry Potter and José López -- How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between / Rom Harré and Roy Bhaskar -- The intersecting paths of critical relations: multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds / Philip Hodgkiss -- Reading Foucault as a realist / Frank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss -- The ethogenics of agency and structure: a metaphysical problem / Charles R. Varela -- Where is social structure? / John Scott -- Metaphors of social complexity / José López -- Sociology and epistemology / Jean Bricmont -- Critical realism and quantum mechanics: some introductory bearings / Christopher Norris -- Why are sociologists naturephobes? / Ted Benton -- Critical realism and political ecology / Tim Forsyth -- Keeping it real: a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace / Pam Higham -- Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing / Sue Clegg -- Truth in fiction, science and criticism / Garry Potter -- Reconsidering literary interpretation / Philip Tew -- Vaporising the real: artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" / Francis Barker -- Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self / Justin Cruikshank -- Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics: the example of smoking / David Ford -- Descartes' individualistic epistemology--a critique / Allison Assiter -- Social movements and science: the question of plural knowledge systems / Jenneth Parker -- Do realists run regressions? / Douglas V. Porpora -- Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political / Robert Fine -- Critical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction / Bertell Ollman -- On real and nominal absences / Andrew Collier. |
Responsibility: | edited by José López, Garry Potter. |
Abstract:
What comes after "postmodernism"? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion. The last few years have seen growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis. After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the field to present the first truly interdisciplinary introduction to critical realism. The book presents the reader with a compendium of accessible essays illustrating the connections between meta-theory, theory and substantive research across Sociology, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Politics, Media Studies, Psychology and Science Studies. The flexibility of critical realism is illustrated in the range of topics discussed - ranging from quantum mechanics to cyberspace, to literary theory, nature, smoking, the future of Marx, the unconscious and, of course, postmodernism and the future of theory itself.
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