Critical Realism and the Social Sciences : Heterodex Elaborations.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Methodological and Epistemological Preliminaries -- 2 Bhaskar's Critical Realism: An Appreciative Introduction and a Friendly Critique -- 3 For Realism and Anti-Realism -- 4 Critical Realism and God -- 5 Rescuing Reflexivity: From Solipsism to Realism -- 6 More than Straw Figures in Straw Houses: Toward a Revaluation of Critical Realism's Conception of Post-structuralist Theory -- 7 Thinking across the Culture/Nature Divide: An Empirical Study of Issues for Critical Realism and Social Constructionism -- 8 Beyond Cognitive Critiques: Getting Real about Politics -- 9 Objectivity and Marxian Political Economy -- 10 Why Is This Labour Value? Commodity-Producing Labour as a Social Kind -- 11 The Relation between Marxism and Critical Realism -- 12 Understanding Why Anything Matters: Needy Beings, Flourishing, and Suffering -- 13 The Expulsion of Foucault from Governmentality Studies: Toward an Archaeological-Realist Retrieval -- 14 From Foucault's Genealogy to Aleatory Materialism: Realism, Nominalism, and Politics -- 15 Gadamer's Minimal Realism -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Critical Realism and the Social Sciencesbrings together contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, all of whom engage with tenets of critical realism, juxtaposing them with traditional representations of social scientific enquiry.

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