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Winner: Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for innovative writing on critical realism
This new textbook offers a succinct yet broad introduction to critical realism, an increasingly popular approach to the philosophy of science that provides a holistic alternative to both positivism and postmodernism.
This text sets out the central concepts, arguments and understandings in critical realism and relates them to social scientific practice. In addition to answering the question 'what is critical realism?', the authors consider critical realism in light of two crucial themes in contemporary society – neoliberalism and climate change – which run as common threads throughout the chapters. While some introductions to the topic focus exclusively on the work of Roy Bhaskar – critical realism's best-known proponent – this text covers a much wider range of thinkers and social researchers, and also features Key Concept boxes and CR in Action boxes throughout to aid the reader through this complex yet rewarding subject.
This text is the perfect entry point for all those studying critical realism for the first time, or for those seeking to re-familiarise themselves with this approach. Whether you're studying critical realism as part of a broader course on the philosophy of science or seeking to apply critical realist methods to a particular research project, this book is essential reading for the social sciences, humanities and beyond.
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97
Neoliberalism,
Growth
and the Climate
Crisis
decade
turn
out
to
be
just
a
ripple
on
the
surface
in
the
troubled
waters
of
neo-
liberal
decline.
It
seems
likely
that
they
will.
However,
in
the
unlikely
event
that
high
and
persistent
growth
rates
suddenly
materialise
in
the
OECD,
it
would
be
necessary –
as
a
critical
realist –
to
re-evaluate
current
theories
and
analyses
of
the
tendency.
GREEN
GROWTH
OR
POST-CAPITALISM?
What
are
the
current
main
political
projects
relating
to
the
climate
crisis?
How
convincing
are
the
various
projects,
and
to
what
extent
do
each
of
them
cur-
rently
shape
political
action?
To
address
such
questions
from
a
critical
realist
perspective,
one
would
need
to
conduct
a
thorough
analysis
of
the
existing
political
landscape,
drawing
dynamically
on
both
substantive
theory
and
empi-
rical
sources.
Aside
from
identifying
the
projects
(discourses),
one
also
needs
to
consider
what
constellation
of
agents
supports
them
and
how
conducive
the
structural
context
is
to
their
realisation.
Indeed,
it
is
essential
that
analyses
of
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
%
1961-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2018
Figure
6.3
Average
GDP
growth
per
capita
in
OECD
countries
Data
source:
https://data.worldbank.org/
Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Critical Realism in Times of Crisis
- 2: Realism(s) and the Critique of Positivism
- 3: Basics: Ontology and Epistemology
- 4: Basics: Transcending Dualisms
- 5: Practicing Critical Realism
- 6: Neoliberalism, Growth and the Climate Crisis
- 7: Discourses and (De)constructions
- 8: Contemporary Critical Realism
- 9: What Critical Realism Is (Not)
- Bibliography
- Index
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