1st Edition

Reflections on metaReality Transcendence, Emancipation and Everyday Life

By Roy Bhaskar Copyright 2012
320 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Reflections on meta-Reality is now widely regarded as a landmark in contemporary philosophy. It initiates the philosophy of meta-Reality, the third main phase of Roy Bhaskar’s philosophical thoughts, after original or basic critical realism and dialectical critical realism. Originally published in 2002 and based on talks given in India, Europe and America, Roy Bhaskar presents his new... Read more
Introduction  Preface  Chapter 1. Critical Realism: Beyond Modernism and Post-Modernism  Chapter 2. Who am I?  Chapter 3. Social Science and Self-realisation: Non-duality and Co-presence Chapter 4. Meta-Reality: In and Beyond Critical Realism

Biography

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and influential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., From Science to Emancipation and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education.