Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. All the introductions of the new editions of Bhaskar's books, is less to critique the ideas put forward than to help the people understand them as a prolegomenon to their critical reception. He developed a neuropathy that led to the amputation of a foot and an ongoing struggle with infection. He was robbed of most of his savings by his 'New Age' associates. The Philosophy of MetaReality suggests that, contrary to Bhaskar's own self-understanding, TDCR belongs more with metarealism than with DCR and its concepts are either explicitly present in TDCR or strongly implicit. The fundamental concern of TDCR is thinking and being as incorporating spirituality, as the way with the developmental moments of a dialectical system, it also brings its own particular emphasis to the thinking of the other stadia.