ABSTRACT
This chapter captures, in dialogue form, conversations between two research students and their university supervisor about critical realism. They discuss their different histories, life experiences, and what attracted them to critical realism in the first place. Each came to critical realism expressing frustration with the inadequacy of contemporary social science (and western theory more generally) to not only explain but also guide the absenting of the ills of current times. They explore the nature of their emancipatory commitments as part of their intellectual and personal lives – and the central place that love and ground state spirituality have to those commitments.
