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Realism and Individualism

Author : Mateusz W. Oleksy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269017
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Realism and Individualism written by Mateusz W. Oleksy and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely extends or refines new arguments in support of Scholastic Realism without questioning its basic assumptions. The book presents a critical overview of Peirce’s views on modern nominalism and offers a novel approach to the social-anthropological underpinnings of his realism, especially Pragmatic Realism vis à vis the individualist tendencies in modern thought. The book is of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, especially students of American pragmatism, anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, as well as to anyone interested in Charles S. Peirce, Duns Scotus, Ockham, and generally to semioticians, social scientists, and sociologists.

Burdens of Freedom

Author : Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641770414
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Burdens of Freedom written by Lawrence M. Mead and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is the greatest test of our times.

A Relational Theory of World Politics

Author : Yaqing Qin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107183146
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Relational Theory of World Politics written by Yaqing Qin and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of world politics drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions to argue for a focus on relations amongst actors, rather than on the actors individually.

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science

Author : John Henry Schlegel
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864366
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science written by John Henry Schlegel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920s and 1930s that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challenge the received notion that the study of law was primarily a matter of learning rules and how to manipulate them. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula. Schlegel reviews the work of several prominent Realists but concentrates on the writings of Walter Wheeler Cook, Underhill Moore, and Charles E. Clark. He reveals how their interest in empirical research was a product of their personal and professional circumstances and demonstrates the influence of John Dewey's ideas on the expression of that interest. According to Schlegel, competing understandings of the role of empirical inquiry contributed to the slow decline of this kind of research by professors of law. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Critical Realism

Author : Margaret Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136287256
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism written by Margaret Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes: * transcendental realist * the theory of explanatory critique * dialectics * Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science.

Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education

Author : Grant Banfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317411498
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education written by Grant Banfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical realist intervention into the field of Marxist Sociology of Education. Critical realism, as developed by British philosopher Roy Bhaskar, is known for its capacity to serve as a conceptual underlabourer to applied fields like education. Indeed, its success in clarifying and resolving thorny issues of educational theory and practice is now well established. Given critical realism’s sympathetic Marxist origins, its productive and critical engagement with Marxism has an even longer history. To date there has been little sustained attention given to the application of critical realism to Marxist educational praxis. The book addresses this gap in existing scholarship. Its conceptual ground clearing of the field of Marxist Sociology of Education centres on two problematics well-known in the social sciences: naturalism and the structure-agency relation. Marxist theory from the days of Marx to the present is shown to also be haunted by these problematics. This has resulted in considerable tension around the meaning and nature of, for example, reform, revolution, class determinism and class struggle. With its emergence in the 1970s as a child of Western Marxism, the field continues to be an expression of these tensions that seriously limit its transformative potential. Addressing these issues and offering conceptual clarification in the interests of revolutionary educational practice, Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education provides a new perspective on education which will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Semantic Challenges to Realism

Author : Mark Quentin Gardiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802047717
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Challenges to Realism written by Mark Quentin Gardiner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many philosophers espouse anti-realism, the only sustained arguments for the position are due to Michael Dummett and Hilary Putnam. Gardiner's unpretentious style and lucid organization make sense of Dummett's and Putnam's discourse.

Realism and Sociology

Author : Justin Cruickshank
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415436850
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Realism and Sociology written by Justin Cruickshank and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism. Critics often hold that realism tries to assume some definitive account of reality. Against this it is argued throughout the book that realism can combine a strong definition of social reality with an anti-foundational approach to knowledge. The position of realist anti-foundationalism that is argued for is developed and defended via the use of immanent critiques. These deal primarily with post-Wittgensteinian positions that seek to define knowledge and social reality in terms of 'rule-following practices' within different 'forms of life' and 'language games'. Specifically, the argument engages with Rorty's neo-pragmatism and the structuration theory of Giddens. The philosophy of Popper is also drawn upon in a critically appreciative way. While the positions of Rorty and Giddens seek to deflate the claims of 'grand theory', albeit in different ways, they both end up with definitive claims about knowledge and reality that preclude social research. By avoiding the general deflationary approach that relies on reference to 'practices', realism is able to combine a strong social ontology with an anti-foundational epistemology, and thus act as an underlabourer for empirical research.

What's Critical About Critical Realism?

Author : Frédéric Vandenberghe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135104867
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book What's Critical About Critical Realism? written by Frédéric Vandenberghe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 social movements and explore the hermeneutics of internal conversations. Together, the essays form a logical sequence that starts with a search for a solid conception of social structure through a realist critique of Bourdieu ́s rationalist epistemology, proceeds to an ideology critique of posthumanism through an investigation of Actor-Network Theory, extends critical realism to social movements through an investigation of the constitution of collective subjectivities and engages in a sustained dialogue with Margaret Archer through an attempt to reconnect hermeneutics and pragmatism to critical realism. The result is an ongoing dialogue between British critical realism, French historical epistemology, German critical theory and American pragmatism. As suits a collection of essays in social theory, this book will address a broad audience of sociologists, philosophers, social psychologists and anthropologists who are interested in contemporary social theory at the cutting edge. Academics and advanced students who relate to critical realism and critical theory, epistemology and philosophy of the social sciences, hermeneutics and pragmatism, or anyone else who follows the work of Roy Bhaskar, Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour or Margaret Archer will find a keen interest in some of the theoretical questions the book raises.

Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism

Author : Alison Waller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135904626
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism written by Alison Waller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of psychology, sociology, and education. Rather, these models—frameworks including developmentalism, identity formation, social agency, and subjectivity in cultural space—can also be found represented symbolically in fantastic tropes such as metamorphosis, time-slip, hauntings, doppelgangers, invisibility, magic gifts, and witchcraft. These are the incredible, supernatural, and magical elements that invade the everyday and diurnal world of fantastic realism. In this original study, Alison Waller proposes a new critical term to categorize a popular and established genre in literature for teenagers: young adult fantastic realism. Though fantastic realism plays a crucial part in the short history of young adult literature, up until now this genre has typically been overlooked or subsumed into the wider class of fantasy. Touching on well-known authors including Robert Cormier, Melvin Burgess, Gillian Cross, Margaret Mahy, K.M. Peyton and Robert Westall, as well as previously unexamined writers, Waller explores the themes and ideological perspectives embedded in fantastic realist novels in order to ask whether parallel realities and fantastic identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive. One of the first studies to deal with late twentieth-century fantastic literature for young adults, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of adult attitudes toward adolescent identity.

Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism

Author : Robert Schuett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423299
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism written by Robert Schuett and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order.

Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134027346
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism written by David Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology. The position taken by the author is critical realist; and thus throughout the relationship between education and critical realism is foregrounded. Themes and issues that surface at different times in the book are: a critical realist view of education research; a resolution of the quantitative/qualitative divide; criteria for judging the worth of educational texts and practices; differences between scientific and critical realisms; empirical research methods in education; structure-agency relationships; pragmatist views of educational research; foundations and paradigmatic differences; and educational critique and transformation.

Critical Realism in Economics

Author : Steve Fleetwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134645368
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism in Economics written by Steve Fleetwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the fields of economic methodology and economic theory, this title opens up new forms of investigation in economics and transforms the nature of economic reasoning. The work combines contributions from authors critical of this approach with those who are concerned to clarify its full implications for contemporary economics. This is a vol

Kafka’s Cognitive Realism

Author : Emily Troscianko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136180044
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Kafka’s Cognitive Realism written by Emily Troscianko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts. The volume shows that the concept of "cognitive realism" can be a critically productive framework for exploring how textual evocations of cognition correspond to or diverge from cognitive realities, and how this may affect real readers. In particular, it argues that Kafka’s evocations of visual perception (including narrative perspective) and emotion can be understood as fundamentally enactive, and that in this sense they are "cognitively realistic". These cognitively realistic qualities are likely to establish a compellingly direct connection with the reader’s imagination, but because they contradict folk-psychological assumptions about how our minds work, they may also leave the reader unsettled. This is the first time a fully interdisciplinary research paradigm has been used to explore a single author’s fictional works in depth, opening up avenues for future research in cognitive literary science.

Capitalist Realism

Author : Mark Fisher
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803414316
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Realism written by Mark Fisher and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.

Extra-individual Reality

Author : Revere Randolph Gurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Extra-individual Reality written by Revere Randolph Gurley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences

Author : Timothy Rutzou
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178756603X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences written by Timothy Rutzou and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”