This text extends depth-realist philosophy to the question of values. It argues that beings both in the natural and human worlds have worth in themselves, whether we recognize it or not. This view is defended through an account of the human mind as essentially concerned with that of which it is independent. The book builds on Roy Bhaskar's proof that facts can entail values, and it aims to repeat in the realm of ethics his argument that experiment and change in science show that there is a depth-dimension of real structures in nature and society. This it does by a partial defence and immanent...
This text extends depth-realist philosophy to the question of values. It argues that beings both in the natural and human worlds have worth in themsel...
This volume seeks to show how realist social research allows us to make genuine discoveries, of relevance to social policy, which recognize the complexity of the real world.
This volume seeks to show how realist social research allows us to make genuine discoveries, of relevance to social policy, which recognize the comple...
Nancy Fraser's work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, including an extended critical exchange with Axel Honneth that touches importantly upon the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu on social suffering. All the essays collected here engage with the work of one or both of these thinkers'. They consider some of the conceptual and philosophical contentions...
Nancy Fraser's work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral...
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently 'neoliberal' direction of much of EU policy-output.
A critical realist method is adopted, informed by both Marxist and anarchist critiques of social democratic parties, to argue that we can view this paradoxical development as resulting from the inherently unstable representation of...
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical ...
