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56: Critical Realism Today

Katheryn Dean, Jonathan Joseph, Alan Norrie (Guest editors)

Editorial

new formations 52Critical realism began in the mid-1970s as a major intervention in the philosophy of science. Since then it has grown into one of the most ambitious and provocative attempts at understanding the natural and the social world. Initially associated with the work of the philosopher Roy Bhaskar, it currently attracts specialists from a wide variety of disciplines including law, political theory, sociology, international relations, and communications, with concerns ranging from the question of human freedom to the place of spirituality in late modernity. The essays in this issue provide an overview and balance sheet of critical realism’s achievements to date. They tackle some of the dominant trends in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, and explore some of its possible yet contested futures. Together they offer both an indispensable introduction and a guide to new directions.

Contributors: Jolyon Agar, Gideon Calder, Diana Coole, Kathryn Dean, Bob Jessop, Jonathan Joseph, Jamie Morgan, Caroline New, Alan Norrie, Douglas V. Porpora, John Michael Roberts.

Cover image: Twittering Machine (detail) by Paul Klee

CONTENTS
Kathryn Dean, Jonathan Joseph and Alan Norrie Editorial: New Essays in Critical Realism
Jolyon Agar Beyond Critical Realism: Kantian Empirical Metaphysics
Bob Jessop Critical Realism and the Strategic-Relational Approach
Caroline New
Sex and Gender: A Critical Realist Approach
Kathryn Dean Ontology and Science: Critical Realism versus Post-structuralism
Gideon Calder Post-Cartesian Anxieties: Embodied Subjectivity after the Linguistic Turn
Alan Norrie Theorising 'Spectrality': Ontology and Ethics in Derrida and Bhaskar
John Michael Roberts and Jonathan Joseph Derrida, Foucault and Zizek: Being Realistic about Social Theory
Diana Coole Dialectical Critical Realism and Existential Phenomenology: A Dialogue
Jamie Morgan Ontological Casuistry: Bhaskar's Meta-Reality, Fine Structure, and Human Disposition
Douglas V. Porpora The Spiritual Turn in Critical Realism
REVIEWS
David Macey Demise and Publish
Mara Mills After the Science Wars
Jeremy Gilbert The Rule of Everyone by Everyone
Yogita Goyal For a Planetary Conviviality
Ben Highmore Location, Location
Shelley Trower Fear Itself
BOOKNOTES
Rebecca Farley, Stuart Burrows

Paperback, single issue £14.99, All rights L&W
ISBN 1905007248
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