1st Edition
What's Critical About Critical Realism? Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory
By Frédéric Vandenberghe
Copyright 2014
352 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
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by
Routledge
352 Pages
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by
Routledge
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What's Critical About Critical Realism?: Essays in Reconstructive Social Theory draws together 4 major articles that are situated at the intersection of philosophy and sociology. Preceded by a general presentation of Bhaskar´s work, critical realism is used to reconstruct the generative structuralism of Pierre Bourdieu, warn about the dangers of biocapitalism, theorize about... Read more
1. Introduction: Metacritical Realism. A Proposal 2. Internal Conversations that We Are 3. Avatars of the Collective. A Realist Theory of Collective Subjectivities 4. Generative Structuralism in Pierre Bourdieu 5. Posthumanism, or the Cultural Logics of Late Capitalism
Biography
Frederic Vandenberghe is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP, formerly known as IUPERJ), which is part of the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.Personal webpage: http://frederic.iesp.uerj.br.
