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The Philosophy of MetaReality Creativity, Love and Freedom
By Roy Bhaskar
Copyright 2012
456 Pages
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Routledge
452 Pages
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Routledge
456 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 2012. The Philosophy of MetaReality: creativity, love and freedom is the third of three books elaborating Roy Bhaskar’s philosophy of metaReality, which appeared in rapid succession in 2002. A big, rich book teaming with ideas, The Philosophy of MetaReality is undoubtedly the magnum opus of Bhaskar’s spiritual turn. Building on a radical new analysis of the self, human agency... Read more
Chapter 1 The Vedanta of Consciousness: Transcendence, Enlightenment and Everyday Life; Chapter 2 The Alienated Self and the Kabbala of Transformation; Pro_ Chapter 3 Don’t Think You Are Who You Think You Are; Chapter 3 The Zen of Creativity and the Critique of the Discursive Intellect; Pro_ Chapter 4 So You Think Non-duality is Unusual?— Or, Are You Paying Attention (Listening, to Me, Reader]?); Chapter 4 The Tao of Love and Unconditionality in Commitment; Chapter 5 The Yoga of Action and Effortless Efficiency; Chapter 6 The Nous of Perception and the Re-enchantment of the Tree of Life; Chapter 7 The Gnosis of Freedom and the Fana of Fulfilment;
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.
