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Reflections on Meta-Reality: Transcendence, Emancipation and Everyday Life
In a brilliant series of studies, Roy Bhaskar, the originator of the influential, multi-disciplinary and international philosophy of critical realism, presents for the first time in published form, his new philosophy of Meta-Reality. The philosophy of Meta-Reality confirms many aspects of the great philosophical traditions of the past, while correcting their one-sidedness and transcending their dualism and dichotomies, representing what is valid in them in a radically new way, apt for our contemporary times of global crisis.
- GenresPhilosophy
274 pages, Hardcover
First published July 24, 2002
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Roy Bhaskar
44Ìýbooks21ÌýfollowersRoy Bhaskar (born May 15, 1944) is a British philosopher, best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of Critical Realism.
Bhaskar was born in Teddington, London, the elder of two brothers. His Indian father and English mother were Theosophists.[1]
In 1963 Bhaskar began attending Balliol College, Oxford on a scholarship to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Having graduated with first class honours in 1966, he began work on a Ph.D. thesis about the relevance of economic theory for under-developed countries. This research led him to the philosophy of social science and then the philosophy of science. In the course of this Rom Harré became his supervisor.
Bhaskar was born in Teddington, London, the elder of two brothers. His Indian father and English mother were Theosophists.[1]
In 1963 Bhaskar began attending Balliol College, Oxford on a scholarship to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Having graduated with first class honours in 1966, he began work on a Ph.D. thesis about the relevance of economic theory for under-developed countries. This research led him to the philosophy of social science and then the philosophy of science. In the course of this Rom Harré became his supervisor.
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March 16, 2016
Taken from talks given by Roy Bhaskar in India, the book features very lucid explanations of the MetaRealist philosophy. It's a relatively easy read, given that the ideas will most certainly initially strike one as strange and radical.
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