Dialectic

This book attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of traditional philosophy. He conceives a “transformational” model of society and sees social science as explanatory and therefore of assistance to political projects of emancipation. Concerned to bridge the gap between philosophy and politics <i>Dialectic</i> argues that critical realism provides the basis of a completely new and general methodology for the human sciences. This book also contains an account of the history of Western philosophy from its pre-Socratic origins to its contemporary post-modernist forms.