Overview
- A highly distinctive work on the philosophy of critical realism and meta-reality
- Outlines a Vedic dimension to Roy Bhaskar’s thoughts
- Elaborates on the fundamental concept that ‘you are a unique, concretely singular individual’
- Provides compelling “Achilles’ heel” metacritiques of Nietzsche, Derrida, Marx and Marxism
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About the authors
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; Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom; The Philosophy of MetaReality; Enlightened Common Sense and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism.
Mervyn Hartwig is founding editor (retired) of Journalof Critical Realism and editor and principal author of Dictionary of Critical Realism. He has written introductions to all Roy Bhaskar’s single-author books, which were reissued by Routledge 2008-2016, and most recently has edited Bhaskar’s 1971 DPhil thesis, Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences for publication (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reality and Its Depths
Book Subtitle: A Conversation Between Savita Singh and Roy Bhaskar
Authors: Savita Singh, Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4214-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4213-8Published: 20 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4216-9Published: 20 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4214-5Published: 19 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 243
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour