Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:09:59 +1200 (NZST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fydd?= <ffyddless-AT-yahoo.co.nz> Subject: BHA: Critical Realism and History Greetings, I am PhD student who is writing a thesis which is an historical interpretation of the New Left in New Zealand from 1956 to 1980. I am using a Critical Realist methodology for my work. I was wondering if someone could help me out and point to any academic historian who has used such a method in a book/article etc. So far I have not come across a historian who has used CR. I find Bhaskar's comments in his book "Scientific Realism" called a "a note on history" to be useful for an emancipatory critique and explanation of history, but overall too abstract and vague to be operationalised effectively (eg. the comments about "connector points", "branch points", "jump points" etc. in history). So I am looking for something more applied, concrete and less philosophical. By the way, what type of Marxist is Bhaskar? Is he a Trotskyist or Trotskyoid (ie. a Trot sympathiser)? Or a non-Leninist Marxist? Cheers, Toby Boraman University of Otago Dunedin Aotearoa/NZ http://digital.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Digital How To - Get the best out of your PC! --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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