Reflections on metaReality : transcendence, emancipation and everyday life

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Reflections on MetaReality is now widely regarded as a landmark in contem- porary philosophy. It initiates the philosophy of metaReality, the third main phase of Roy Bhaskar’s philosophical thoughts, after original or basic critical realism and dialectical critical realism. Originally published in 2002 and based on talks given in India, Europe and America, Reflections on MetaReality presents Roy Bhaskar’s new philosophy of metaReality as a radical extension, systematic development and proleptic completion of critical realism. This brilliant series of studies contains seminal and far-reaching discussions of critical realism and the nature of being; an incisive and limpid account of modernity, modernism and post-modernism; a sublime discourse on the nature of the self; and compelling considerations of the relationship between social science and self-realisation. Together, they demonstrate the ubiquity of transcendental phenomena in everyday life and the orientation of enlighten- ment towards collective human emancipation and universal self-realisation. A new introduction to this edition by Mervyn Hartwig, founding editor of the Journal of Critical Realism and editor and major author of A Dictionary of Critical Realism (Routledge, 2007), describes the context, significance and impact of Reflections on MetaReality and supplies an expert guide to its con- tent. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners in both philosophy and the human sciences. 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 Emancipa- tion; Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom; Plato Etc.; From Science to Emancipation and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. Among his edited volumes are Critical Realism: Essential Readings, Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis. He was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism; and is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education. Cover Reflections on MetaReality: Transcendence, emancipation and everyday life Copyright Contents New Introduction Introduction Preface Chapter One Critical Realism: Beyond Modernism and Post-modernism Chapter Two Who Am I? Chapter Three Social Science and Self-realisation: Non-duality and Co-presence Chapter Four Meta-Reality: In and Beyond Critical Realism Postscript Index