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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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Siṃha, Savitā, 1962-
Other Authors: Bhaskar, Roy, 1944-2014, Hartwig, Mervyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2020.
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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.