Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom (Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism) - Hardcover

Bhaskar, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415579651 ISBN 13: 9780415579650

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review:

"Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom is full of fascinating, important ideas and insights, and is immensely timely. It will have a deeply beneficial effect, and will surely be very widely read and discussed." - Professor Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford

About the Author:

Roy Bhaskar is 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., From Science to Emancipation, Reflections on meta-Reality and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415579651
• ISBN 13: 9780415579650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240