Realism Discourse and Deconstruction

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Theories of discourse bring to realism new ideas about how knowledge develops and how representations of reality are influenced. We gain an understand... Lees meer

Explaining Morality

Steve Ash

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Adopting a critical realist approach to morality, this book considers morality as an aspect of social reality, enquiring into the nature of moral agen... Lees meer

The Adelphi Players

Cecil W Davies, Cecil Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism | nr. 39
• Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theat... Lees meer

Realism Discourse and Deconstruction

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of co... Lees meer

A Critical Realist Theory of Sport

Graham Scambler

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of ... Lees meer

Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society

Graham Scambler

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within... Lees meer

Education Policy and Realist Social Theory

Robert Archer

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism | nr. 3
• In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has beco... Lees meer

Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective

Johnny C Go

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• This book examines the possibility and necessity of critical thinking in religious education through the lenses of critical realism and the Christian ... Lees meer

Critical Realism and Composition Theory

Donald Judd

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for t... Lees meer

Revitalizing Causality

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism | nr. 18
• This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke cau... Lees meer

In Defence of Objectivity

Andrew Collier

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• This volume addresses the interlocking themes of realism, objectivity, existentialism and (eco-socialist) politics, based on critical realism. However... Lees meer

Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism

Christopher Norris

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist position... Lees meer

Realism and Sociology

Justin Cruickshank

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology mak... Lees meer

Explaining Society

Berth Danermark, Mats Ekström, Jan Ch Karlsson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Ex... Lees meer

Against the Spiritual Turn

Sean Creaven

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• The argument presented in this book is that the recent 'spiritual' trajectory of Roy Bhaskar's work, upon which he first embarked with the publication... Lees meer

A Philosophical History of German Sociology

Frédéric Vandenberghe

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• A Philosophical History of German Sociology presents a systematic reconstruction of critical theory, from the founding fathers of sociology (Marx, Sim... Lees meer

Explaining Global Poverty

Branwen Gruffydd Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Gruffydd Jones' approach brings a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives an important platform from which to move forward... Lees meer

Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society

Graham Scambler

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within... Lees meer

Explaining Global Poverty

Branwen Gruffydd Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution be... Lees meer

Engendering the State

Lynn Savery

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Why have states in general been slower to incorporate the international diffusion of women's human rights norms domestically than other human rights n... Lees meer

On Christian Belief

Andrew Collier

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• This book offers a defence of realism in the philosophy of religion and argues that religious belief - with particular reference to Christian belief -... Lees meer

The Space That Separates: A Realist Theory of Art

Nick Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it m... Lees meer

Defending Objectivity

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• Andrew Collier is the boldest defender of objectivity - in science, knowledge, thought, action, politics, morality and religion. In this tribute and a... Lees meer

Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing

Roy Bhaskar, Berth Danermark, Leigh Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
• In this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional prac... Lees meer