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Title Critical realism and the social sciences : heterodox elaborations / edited by Jon Frauley and Frank Pearce.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 349 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index.
Contents ""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""
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Subject Marxist criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Critical realism.
Critical realism.
Critical realism -- Textbooks.
Genre/Form Textbooks.
Subject Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Textbooks.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Textbooks.
Added Author Frauley, Jon, 1972- editor.
Pearce, Frank, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Critical realism and the social sciences. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 9780802092151 (DLC) 2008360722 (OCoLC)145429156
ISBN 9781442684232 (electronic book)
1442684232 (electronic book)
9780802092151 (bound)
0802092152 (bound)