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