Reality and its depths [electronic resource] : a conversation between Savita Singh and Roy Bhaskar / Savita Singh, Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig ; edited by Mervyn Hartwig.
This book on the philosophy of critical realism and meta-Reality and its development is based on conversations between Roy Bhaskar, the originator of the philosophy, and Savita Singh, a distinguished Indian poet and social theorist. The wide range of topics covered include the priority of being over...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Author's Preface
- Editor's Preface
- About This Book
- Contents
- About the Authors
- 1 Childhood and University
- 1.1 A Natural Philosopher
- 1.2 Solidarising with the Oppressed
- 1.3 Engaging with Marx, Marxism and 'Third-World' Revolutionary Movements
- 1.4 Critical Theory
- 1.5 Early Theoretical Work
- 2 Transcendental Realism and Critical Naturalism
- 2.1 Breaking the Taboo on Ontology
- 2.2 A New Understanding of the Natural World: Transcendental Realism
- 2.3 Rethinking the Problem of Naturalism
- 2.3.1 Critique of Hermeneutics.
- 2.3.2 Transcending the Dualisms of Social Science
- 2.3.3 The Main Moments of Critical Realism: A Brief Overview
- 2.3.4 Why Philosophers Have Tended to Ignore Critical Realism
- 2.3.5 The Transition from Transcendental Realism to Critical Naturalism Revisited
- 2.3.6 The Main Differences Between the Natural and the Social Sciences and Their Objects
- 2.3.7 Epistemological Dialectic Without End?
- 3 The Transitions to Dialectical Critical Realism and the Theory of Everyday Transcendence
- 3.1 Getting Dialectic Right
- 3.2 The Existence of Negation in Reality.
- 3.3 The Developmental Structure of Dialectical Critical Realism
- 3.4 A New Theory: Everyday Transcendence and Creativity
- 4 How False Theories Work: TINA Formations and the Critique of Irrealism
- 4.1 Positivism and Critical Realism
- 4.2 TINA Compromise Formations and the Asymmetry of Emancipation
- 4.3 Categories of Negation and the Critique of Irrealism
- 5 Recovery of Truth and the Dialectic of Self-realisation
- 5.1 Recovering Truth and Escaping from Mystification
- 5.2 The Question of Self-change and Social Transformation
- 6 God, the Cosmic Envelope and the Self.
- 6.1 Fathoming the Depths of the Self
- 6.2 The Further Transcendental Deepening of Critical Realism
- 6.3 The Cosmic Envelope and Its Relation to God and the Universe
- 6.4 The Tripartite Self and the Goal of Self-realisation
- 6.5 Critiques Entrained by the New Philosophy
- 6.5.1 A Radical Critique of Religious and Spiritual Practices
- 6.5.2 Direct Understanding and the Critique of Hermeneutics
- 6.5.3 Critique of Marxism
- 6.6 Radical Hermeticism and the Dialectical Learning Process of Life
- 7 The Emotions, Thought and Self-realisation
- 7.1 The Emotions.
- 7.2 Mind, Thought, Consciousness
- 8 Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism
- 8.1 Modernism in India and the West
- 8.2 Postmodernism and Poststructuralism
- 8.2.1 Foucault, Derrida, Levinas, Rorty
- 8.2.2 Endless Repetition of the Same
- 8.2.3 Insights of Modernism and Postmodernism
- 9 The Question of Women
- 10 Recognition and Immortality, Failure and Success
- 10.1 Recognition and Immortality
- 10.2 Failure and Principles of Success
- 11 Re-enchanting Reality: Practical Ways to Become Freer
- 11.1 Overcoming Dualism and Dichotomy in Practice
- 11.2 Demystifying Self-realisation.