Dialectic The Pulse of Freedom,9780860915836

Dialectic The Pulse of Freedom

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ISBN13: 9780860915836
ISBN10: 0860915832
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-11-17
Publisher(s): Verso
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Summary

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 science as explanatory, and therefore of assistance to political projects of emancipation. Concerned to bridge the gap between philosophy and politics, Dialectic argues that critical realism provides the basis of a completely new and general methodology for the human sciences. This book also contains an account of the history of Western philosophy, from its pre-Socratic origins to its contemporary post-modernist forms.

Author Biography

Roy Bhaskar is an independent scholar and founder of the critical realist movement in the social sciences. He is the author of several books, including The Possibility of Naturalism, Reclaiming Reality, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom and Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction: Critical Realism, Hegelian Dialectic and the Problems of Philosophy --- Preliminary Considerations
1(37)
Objectives of the Book
1(2)
`Dialectic': An Initial Orientation
3(1)
Negation
4(4)
Four Degrees of Critical Realism
8(6)
Prima Facie Objections to Critical Realism
14(1)
On the Sources and General Character of the Hegelian Dialectic
15(8)
On the Immanent Critique and Limitations of the Hegelian Dialectic
23(5)
The Fine Structure of Hegelian Dialectic
28(5)
Epistemological Dialectic and the Problems of Philosophy
33(5)
Dialectic: The Logic of Absence --- Arguments, Themes, Perspectives, Configurations
38(166)
Absence
38(11)
Emergence
49(7)
Contradiction I: Hegel and Marx
56(16)
Contradiction II: Misunderstandings
72(14)
On the Materialist Diffraction of Dialectic
86(16)
Dialectical Arguments and the Unholy Trinity
102(10)
Dialectical Motifs: Tina Formations, Mediation, Concrete Universality, etc.
112(22)
On the Generalized Theory of the Dialectical Remark, the Failure of Detachment and the Presence of the Past
134(18)
Dialectical Critical Naturalism
152(21)
Towards a Real Definition of Dialectic
173(31)
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Dialectic of Freedom
204(104)
Ontology
204(10)
The Dialectic of Truth
214(10)
On the Emergence and Derivability of Dialecticized Transcendental Realism
224(7)
1M Realism: Non-Identity
231(7)
2E Realism: Negativity
238(12)
Space, Time and Tense
250(8)
Social Science, Explanatory Critique, Emancipatory Axiology
258(12)
3L Realism: Totality
270(6)
4D Realism: Agency
276(3)
The Dialectic of Desire to Freedom
279(20)
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Dialectics of Critical Realism
299(9)
Metacritical Dialectics: Irrealism and Its Consequences
308(78)
Irrealism
308(6)
The Problems of Philosophy and Their Resolution
314(8)
Contradictions of the Critical Philosophy
322(4)
Dilemmas of the Beautiful Soul and the Unhappy Consequences
326(4)
Master and Slave: From Dialectics of Reconciliation to Dialectics of Liberation
330(6)
The Metacritique of the Hegelian Dialectic
336(8)
Marxian Dialectic I: The Rational Kernel in the Mystical Shell
344(4)
Marxian Dialectic II: The Mystical Shell in the Rational Kernel
348(6)
Metacritical Dialectics: Philosophical Ideologies --- Their Sublation and Explanation
354(11)
The Consequences of Irrealism
365(5)
Diffracted and Retotalized Dialectics
370(8)
Dialectic as the Pulse of Freedom
378(8)
Notes 386(6)
Glossary 392(15)
Name Index 407(2)
Subject Index 409

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