Critical Realism and Concrete Utopias
Journal of Critical Realism 18 (3):239-257 (2019)
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe role of Concrete Utopias in the works of Roy Bhaskar are contrasted with the ‘Real Utopias’ of Erik Olin Wright. Critical Realism treats them as ‘possibilities’ that are real because re...My notes
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The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences.Roy Bhaskar - 1979 - New York: Routledge.
Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism.Roy Bhaskar & Mervyn Hartwig - 2016 - New York: Routledge.
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation.Margaret S. Archer - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.
