This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.
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'Sean Craven's book-length treatment of the over-lapping fields of Marxism and critical realism is ... an intervention into a much debated set of questions over which there is little agreement. This, in itself, makes his work an important contribution, to be welcomed and engaged with by non-Marxist critical realists, Marxist critical realists, and non-critical-realist Marxists alike.' - Historical Materialism
'This is a bold and ambitious work which engages in detail and at length in a wide variety of issues and literatures.' - Historical Materialism
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In the Introduction to this book I have briefly set out the case for a realist (or emergentist) ontology of the social world and those theoretical and methodological perspectives which are consistent with it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret Archer, Alex Callinicos, Chris Harman, Labour Party, Richard Leakey, Max Weber, Nigel Harris, Second World War, Cold War, French Revolution, West Indians New!
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In the Introduction to this book I have briefly set out the case for a realist (or emergentist) ontology of the social world and those theoretical and methodological perspectives which are consistent with it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret Archer, Alex Callinicos, Chris Harman, Labour Party, Richard Leakey, Max Weber, Nigel Harris, Second World War, Cold War, French Revolution, West Indians New!
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- Collected Works V.38 Marx and Engels by Karl Marx on 5 pages
- Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard E. Leakey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach by Margaret S. Archer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Origins Reconsidered by Richard Leakey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Jon Elster in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Debating Biology by Gillian Bendelow on page 38, and page 65
- Scientific Theology: Volume 2: Reality by Alister E. McGrath on page 213
- On Christian Belief: A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) by Andrew Collier in Front Matter
- Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) by Ruth Groff in Front Matter
- Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies by Stephen Ackroyd in Front Matter
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