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Product details
- ISBN 9780860915836
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 1994
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy, which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of traditional philosophy. He conceives a "transformational" model of society and sees social science as explanatory, and therefore of assistance to political projects of emancipation. Concerned to bridge the gap between philosophy and politics, Dialectic argues that critical realism provides the basis of a completely new and general methodology for the human sciences. This book also contains an account of the history of Western philosophy, from its pre-Socratic origins to its contemporary post-modernist forms.
Roy Bhaskar is Research Fellow in Philosophy at Linacre College, Oxford and The City University, London. Amongst his highly acclaimed publications are A Realist Theory of Science (2nd Edition 1978), The Possibility of Naturalism (2nd Edition 1989), Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation (1986), Reclaiming Reality (1989), and Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom (1991).
