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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

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