LEADER 04181nam 22006254a 450 001 9910451071303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29159-5 010 $a9786611291594 010 $a1-84714-106-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000409923 035 $a(EBL)436127 035 $a(OCoLC)229379874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100020 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11111341 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100020 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036622 035 $a(PQKB)10049430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436127 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436127 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129159 035 $a(OCoLC)893333784 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000409923 100 $a20050908d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAfter postmodernism$b[electronic resource] $ean introduction to critical realism /$fedited by Jose? Lo?pez and Garry Potter 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum Collection 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-485-00421-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [314]-328) and index. 327 $tHow to change reality: story vs. structure-- a debate between /$rRom Harre? and Roy Bhaskar --$tThe intersecting paths of critical relations : multiple realities, the inner planet and three dimensional worlds /$rPhilip Hodgkiss --$tReading Foucault as a realist /$rFrank Pearce and Tony Woodiwiss --$tThe ethogenics of agency and structure : a metaphysical problem /$rCharles R. Varela --$tWhere is social structure? /$rJohn Scott --$tMetaphors of social complexity /$rJose? Lo?pez --$tSociology and epistemology /$rJean Bricmont --$tCritical realism and quantum mechanics : some introductory bearings /$rChristopher Norris --$tWhy are sociologists naturephobes? /$rTed Benton --$tCritical realism and political ecology /$rTim Forsyth --$tKeeping it real : a critique of postmodern theories of cyberspace /$rPam Higham --$tIs computing really for women? A critical realist approach to gender issues in computing /$rSue Clegg --$tTruth in fiction, science and criticism /$rGarry Potter --$tReconsidering literary interpretation /$rPhilip Tew --$tVaporising the real : artificiality, millennial anxiety and the "End of history" /$rFrancis Barker --$tRorty on pragmaticism, liberalism and the self /$rJustin Cruikshank --$tRealism and research, philosophy and poverty politics : the example of smoking /$rDavid Ford --$tDescartes' individualistic epistemology--a critique /$rAllison Assiter --$tSocial movements and science : the question of plural knowledge systems /$rJenneth Parker --$tDo realists run regressions? /$rDouglas V. Porpora --$tMarx, Hegel and the specificity of the political /$rRobert Fine --$tCritical realism in light of Marx's process of abstraction /$rBertell Ollman --$tOn real and nominal absences /$rAndrew Collier. 330 $aWhat comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion.The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis.After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the f 410 0$aContinuum Collection 606 $aCritical realism 606 $aRe?alisme critique 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCritical realism. 615 6$aRe?alisme critique. 676 $a149.2 701 $aLo?pez$b Jose?$f1966-$0862048 701 $aPotter$b Garry$f1955-$0862049 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451071303321 996 $aAfter postmodernism$91924300 997 $aUNINA