04144nam 22006134a 450 991082831110332120230617000531.01-281-29159-597866112915941-84714-106-4(CKB)1000000000409923(EBL)436127(OCoLC)229379874(SSID)ssj0000100020(PQKBManifestationID)11111341(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100020(PQKBWorkID)10036622(PQKB)10049430(Au-PeEL)EBL436127(CaPaEBR)ebr10224667(CaONFJC)MIL129159(OCoLC)893333784(MiAaPQ)EBC436127(EXLCZ)99100000000040992320050908d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfter postmodernism[electronic resource] an introduction to critical realism /edited by José López and Garry PotterLondon ;New York Continuum20051 online resource (348 p.)Continuum CollectionDescription based upon print version of record.0-485-00421-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index.How to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between /Rom Harré and Roy Bhaskar --The intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds /Philip Hodgkiss --Reading Foucault as a realist /Frank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss --The ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem /Charles R. Varela --Where is social structure? /John Scott --Metaphors of social complexity /José López --Sociology and epistemology /Jean Bricmont --Critical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings /Christopher Norris --Why are sociologists naturephobes? /Ted Benton --Critical realism and political ecology /Tim Forsyth --Keeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace /Pam Higham --Is computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing /Sue Clegg --Truth in fiction, science and criticism /Garry Potter --Reconsidering literary interpretation /Philip Tew --Vaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" /Francis Barker --Rorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self /Justin Cruikshank --Realism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking /David Ford --Descartes' individualistic epistemology--a critique /Allison Assiter --Social movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems /Jenneth Parker --Do realists run regressions? /Douglas V. Porpora --Marx, Hegel and the specificity of the political /Robert Fine --Critical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction /Bertell Ollman --On real and nominal absences /Andrew Collier.What comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion.The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis.After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the fContinuum CollectionCritical realismRéalisme critiqueCritical realism.Réalisme critique.149.2López José1966-1594650Potter Garry1955-862049MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828311103321After postmodernism4100774UNINA