Realism Discourse and Deconstruction by Jonathan Joseph
Theories of discourse bring to realism new ideas about how knowledge develops and how representations of reality are influenced. We gain an understanding of the conceptual aspect of social life and the processes by which meaning is produced. This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of contributions address such issues as the work of Derrida and deconstruction, discourse theory, Eurocentrism and poststructuralism. What unites all of the contributions is a sense that it is essential to provide a realist alternative to the hitherto dominance of social constructionism, hermeneutics and postmodernism, over many of the issues discussed. By developing a realist perspective the different authors attempt to embed discourse within the structured nature of the reality of the world. Realism can situate language, discourse and ideology within context specific, or 'causally efficacious' circumstances. Realism can help to uncover issues of power, representation, and subjectivity and how discursive and other social practices produce real effects. This can help us understand the manner in which (non-discursive) social structures are reproduced through various forms of ideology and discourse. And by knowing this, we can start to address questions concerning human emancipation and how the world is to be transformed.-
Explaining Society
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Critical Realism and Composition Theory
- Democracy and Human Nature
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On Christian Belief
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Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism
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The Question of Emergence
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Codes of Corruption
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The Reality of Knowledge
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The Sociological Theory of Margaret Archer
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Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society
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Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective
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Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader
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Working with Critical Realism
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Contributions to Social Ontology
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Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences
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Explaining Global Poverty
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Revitalizing Causality
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Engendering the State
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Emergentist Marxism
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Ontology of Sex
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Defending Objectivity
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Education Policy and Realist Social Theory
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Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing
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Big Picture Perspectives on Planetary Flourishing
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Hegemony
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The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art
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Social and Ethnic Inequalities in the Cypriot Education System
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The Subject of Human Being
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Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities
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A Philosophical History of German Sociology
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Explaining Morality
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The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System
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Realism and Sociology
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Against the Spiritual Turn
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Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge
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Critical Realism
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In Defence of Objectivity
Jonathan Joseph, John Michael Roberts
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415322638 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415322634 |
| Title | Realism Discourse and Deconstruction |
| Author | Jonathan Joseph |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Critical Realism |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2003-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 318 |
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