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Dialectic : the pulse of freedom /
This book attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy, which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of traditional philosophy. He conceives a "transformational" model of society and sees social scien...
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London ; New York :
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1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Critical Realism, Hegelian Dialectic and the Problems of Philosophy - Preliminary Considerations. 1. Objectives of the Book. 2. 'Dialectic': An Initial Orientation. 3. Negation. 4. Four Degrees of Critical Realism. 5. Prima Facie Objections to Critical Realism. 6. On the Sources and General Character of the Hegelian Dialectic. 7. On the Immanent Critique and Limitations of the Hegelian Dialectic. 8. The Fine Structure of Hegelian Dialectic. 9. Epistemological Dialectic and the Problems of Philosophy
- 2. Dialectic: The Logic of Absence - Arguments, Themes, Perspectives, Configurations. 1. Absence. 2. Emergence. 3. Contradiction I: Hegel and Marx. 4. Contradiction II: Misunderstandings. 5. On the Materialist Diffraction of Dialectic. 6. Dialectical Arguments and the Unholy Trinity. 7. Dialectical Motifs: Tina Formations, Mediation, Concrete Universality, etc. 8. On the Generalized Theory of the Dialectical Remark, the Failure of Detachment and the Presence of the Past.
- 8. Marxian Dialectic II: The Mystical Shell in the Rational Kernel. 9. Metacritical Dialectics: Philosophical Ideologies - Their Sublation and Explanation. 10. The Consequences of Irrealism. 11. Diffracted and Retotalized Dialectics. 12. Dialectic as the Pulse of Freedom.
- 9. Dialectical Critical Naturalism. 10. Towards a Real Definition of Dialectic
- 3. Dialectical Critical Realism and the Dialectic of Freedom. 1. Ontology. 2. The Dialectic of Truth. 3. On the Emergence and Derivability of Dialecticized Transcendental Realism. 4. 1M Realism: Non-Identity. 5. 2E Realism: Negativity. 6. Space, Time and Tense. 7. Social Science, Explanatory Critique, Emancipatory Axiology. 8. 3L Realism: Totality. 9. 4D Realism: Agency. 10. The Dialectic of Desire to Freedom. 11. Dialectical Critical Realism and the Dialectics of Critical Realism
- 4. Metacritical Dialectics: Irrealism and Its Consequences. 1. Irrealism. 2. The Problems of Philosophy and Their Resolution. 3. Contradictions of the Critical Philosophy. 4. Dilemmas of the Beautiful Soul and the Unhappy Consciousness. 5. Master and Slave: From Dialectics of Reconciliation to Dialectics of Liberation. 6. The Metacritique of the Hegelian Dialectic. 7. Marxian Dialectic I: The Rational Kernel in the Mystical Shell.