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Author Bhaskar, Roy, 1944-2014, author.

Title Philosophy and the idea of freedom / Roy Bhaskar ; with a new introduction by Mervyn Hartwig.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Edition [Revised edition].
Description 1 online resource (241 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Classical texts in critical realism
Classical texts in critical realism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Section I: Anti-Rorty -- Knowledge -- Rorty's account of science -- Pragmatism, epistemology, and the inexorability of realism -- Agency -- The essential tension of philosophy and the mirror of nature or a tale of two Rortys -- How is freedom possible? -- Politics -- Self-defining versus social engineering poetry and politics : the problem-field of contingency, irony, and solidarity -- Rorty's apologetics -- Reference, fictionalism and radical negation -- Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy -- Section II: For critical realism -- Critical realism in context -- Appendix 1: Social theory and moral philosophy -- Appendix 2: Marxist philosophy from Marx to Althusser.
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Subject Rorty, Richard.
Rorty, Richard.
Critical realism.
Critical realism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bhaskar, Roy. Philosophy and the idea of freedom. London : Routledge, 2011 xxviii, 202 pages ; 23 cm Classical texts in critical realism 9780415579650 (DLC) 10875640 (OCoLC)465868524
ISBN 9780203851098 (electronic book)
0203851099 (electronic book)
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9780415579650 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
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0415579651 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0415579643 (paperback ; alkaline paper)