ABSTRACT
From Science to Emancipation: Alienation and the Actuality of Enlightenment is the second of three books elaborating Roy Bhaskar’s new philosophy of metaReality, which appeared in rapid succession in 2002.
With a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, this book contains some of the original transcripts and the questions and answers they provoked, from a variety of lecture and workshop tours Roy Bhaskar presented for Indian audiences before this book was first published. Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of these talks and discussions, this book continues to provide the most immediate and accessible introduction to Roy Bhaskar's philosophy as it charts his intellectual journey.
The talks recorded here have retained an immediate local but also deeply universal interest. From Science to Emancipation provides an indispensible resource for all students of philosophy and the human sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction *
part |46 pages
The Development of Critical Realism
part |155 pages
Debates within and about Critical Realism
chapter |30 pages
Critical Realism and Marxism *
chapter |17 pages
Critical Realism and Discourse Theory: Debate with Ernesto Laclau *
chapter |29 pages
Critical Realism and Ethnomethodology: Debate with Rom Harré
chapter |20 pages
Critical Realism, Transcendence and God *
chapter |18 pages
Critical Realism, Co-presence and Making a Difference *
chapter |19 pages
Part I: Reality Check *
part |94 pages
En Route from Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism to the Philosophy of MetaReality
chapter |24 pages
Critical Realism, Postmodernism and the Global Crisis *
chapter |27 pages
Left versus Right Brain, Creativity and Emancipation *
chapter |41 pages
The Philosophy of MetaReality: Identity, Spirituality, System *
part |67 pages
Explorations within the Philosophy of MetaReality