Reality and Its Depths

A Conversation Between Savita Singh and Roy Bhaskar

Savita Singh, Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9789811542138
• eBook ISBN:
  9789811542145
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Critical Theory

This book on the philosophy of critical realism and meta-Reality and its development is based on conversations between Roy Bhaskar, the originator of the philosophy, and Savita Singh, a distinguished Indian poet and social theorist. The wide range of topics covered include the priority of being over thought, reversing the traditional emphasis in the West;  transcendence as an everyday phenomenon; the prefiguration of the good society in the characteristic labour of women; the metacritique of Nietzsche and Derrida, and of Marx and Marxism; recognition and immortality; and the principle of hermeticism: there is no authority but yourself. The book will appeal to anyone wanting to understand Roy Bhaskar's thought, and offers a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in critical realism and its development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Childhood and University
• 2. Transcendental Realism and Critical Naturalism
• 3. The Transitions to Dialectical Critical Realism and the Theory of Everyday Transcendence
• 4. How False Theories Work: TINA Formations and the Critique of Irrealism
• 5. Recovery of Truth and the Dialectic of Self-realisation
• 6. God, the Cosmic Envelope and the Self
• 7. The Emotions, Thought and Self-realisation
• 8. Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism
• 9. The Question of Women
• 10. Recognition and Immortality, Failure and Success
• 11. Re-enchanting Reality: Practical Ways to Become Freer
• 12. Conclusion
• Back Matter