GENERAL INTRODUCTION; After Postmodernism: The Millennium; PART I: VARIETIES OF REALISM; Introduction; 1 How to Change Reality: Story vs. Structure -- A Debate between Rom Harré and Roy Bhaskar; 2 The Intersecting Paths of Critical Relations: Multiple Realities, the Inner Planet and Three Dimensional Worlds; 3 Reading Foucault as a Realist; 4 The Ethogenics of Agency and Structure: A Metaphysical Problem ; PART II: 'LOOKING FOR' AND 'LOOKING AT' SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Introduction; 5 Where is Social Structure?; 6 Metaphors of Social Complexity; PART III: PHYSICISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS.
14 Reconsidering Literary Interpretation15 Vaporising the Real: Artificiality, Millenial Anxiety and the 'End of History'; PART VII: PRAGMATICISM AND POLITICS; PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY; Introduction; 16 Rorty on Pragmaticism, Liberalism and the Self; 17 Realism and Research, Philosophy and Poverty Politics: the Example of Smoking; PART VIII: WAYS OF KNOWING; Introduction; 18 Descartes's Individualistic Epistemology -- A Critique; 19 Social Movements and Science: The Question of Plural Knowledge Systems; 20 Do Realists Run Regressions?; PART IX: DIALECTICS; Introduction.
21 Marx, Hegel and the Specificity of the Political22 Critical Realism in Light of Marx's Process of Abstraction; 23 On Real and Nominal Absences; Guide to Further Readings; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.
Introduction7 Sociology and Epistemology; 8 Critical Realism and Quantum Mechanics: Some Introductory Bearings; PART IV: THEORY, NATURE AND SOCIETY; Introduction; 9 Why are Sociologists Naturephobes?; 10 Critical Realism and Political Ecology; PART V: COMPUTING POWER: DE-GENDERED BODIES AND GENDERED MINDS?; Introduction; 11 Keeping it Real: A Critique of Postmodern Theories of Cyberspace; 12 Is Computing Really For Women? A Critical Realist Approach to Gender Issues In Computing; PART VI: CULTURE AND CRITICISM; Introduction; 13 Truth in Fiction, Science and Criticism.
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What comes after ''postmodernism''? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century''s end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion. The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis. After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names i.