Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

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1. Beyond Relativism

   Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism

   By Cynthia Lins Hamlin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Critical Realism and Composition Theory

   By Donald Judd

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last four decades and is now revolutionizing the theory and praxis of higher education. This volume examines three of the dominant pedagogical...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Against the Spiritual Turn

   Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

   By Sean Creaven

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (...

   Published January 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Explaining Global Poverty

   A Critical Realist Approach

   By Branwen Gruffydd Jones

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested&...

   Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
5. Revitalizing Causality

   Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

   Edited by Ruth Groff

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers, in the context of offering a causal explanation. A unique collection, it offers the reader various disciplinary and...

   Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
6. A Philosophical History of German Sociology

   By Frédéric Vandenberghe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   A Philosophical History of German Sociology presents a systematic reconstruction of critical theory, from the founding fathers of sociology (Marx, Simmel, Weber) via Lukács to the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas). Through an in depth analysis of the theories of alienation,...

   Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge
7. Engendering the State

   The International Diffusion of Women's Human Rights

   By Lynn Savery

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   Why have states in general been slower to incorporate the international diffusion of women’s human rights norms domestically than other human rights norms and why has the diffusion of these norms varied so greatly between states? Why are some states more responsive and exert more effort than...

   Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge
8. Emergentist Marxism

   Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

   By Sean Creaven

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness,...

   Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
9. Education Policy and Realist Social Theory

   Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism

   By Robert Wilmott

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education, to be achieved by new managerialist techniques and mechanisms. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
10. Ontology of Sex

    By Carrie Hull

    Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

    Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts. Here, Carrie Hull endorses the progressive ideals of poststructuralism while demonstrating the superiority of...

    Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge