Enlightened Common Sense by Roy Bhaskar

Enlightened Common Sense by Roy Bhaskar

Englightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism is the first book to look back over the entire field of critical realism in one concise and accessible volume.

Roy Bhaskar’s too-brief life was a gift to humanityHis life's work gave us a solid ontological grounding for all those intuitions that most of us feel we should be able to justify, but are constantly being told by the reigning intellectual authorities we can’t: that the world, and other people, are real, that freedom is inherent in the nature of the cosmos, that genuine human flourishing can never be at the expense of others. He lived to provide the intellectual heavy artillery for simple common decency and good sense. Much of his work was written in exceedingly difficult language. This book however, makes it accessible to those who have the most to gain from it: anyone trying to make the world a better place.

David Graeber, Anthropologist; sometime revolutionary; Professor at London School of Economics, UK.

Roy Bhaskar writes: ‘If there is a single big idea in critical realism it is the idea of ontology.’ One big idea, perhaps, but Bhaskar developed it in three very different and equally innovative ways. From early depth ontology, through rethinking dialectical negativity, to the metaphysics of metaReality, Bhaskar pushed his thought – and himself. Guided always by the lodestar of emancipation, this final work demonstrates the unity in the three phases of his thought. Always willing to go against the mainstream, it is a fitting final tribute to a great philosopher.

Alan Norrie, Professor, University of Warwick, UK.

Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014) was the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works, including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., Reflections on MetaReality, From Science to Emancipation and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He was an author of Critical Realism: Essential Readings, Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change, Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He was also a World Scholar and Director of the International Centre of Critical Realism at the University of London Institute of Education.

Mervyn Hartwig is the founding editor of the Journal of Critical Realism and editor and principal author of the Dictionary of Critical Realism.

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ISBN 13	9780415583794
ISBN 10	0415583799
Title	Enlightened Common Sense
Author	Roy Bhaskar
Series	Ontological Explorations Routledge Critical Realism
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2016-06-23
Number of pages	226
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