Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:33:51 +0100
From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>
Subject: BHA: JCR May 2003 OUT NOW


Hi Guenter, all,

Here is the announcement for the next issue. It's a little premature in 
that it won't be mailed out to subscribers until the end of next week, 
but why not?

The debate will be made freely available to all comers online when our 
new website opens shortly (www.journalofcriticalrealism.org).

Here is the editorial footnote introducing it:

This is an edited transcript of the first part of a debate between Roy 
Bhaskar and Alex Callinicos, sponsored by the Centre for Critical 
Realism and Historical Materialism, at SOAS, London, December 11th 2002. 
Although it had been billed as a debate on critical realism, Marxism and 
materialism, most of the discussion was about critical realism and its 
relationship to Marxism; and although various issues to do with 
materialism came up in the discussion and in the main speakers' 
subsequent contributions, following the focus of Callinicos's initial 
remarks, turning on what Bhaskar has called epistemological (as distinct 
from ontological and practical) materialism, we are presenting here the 
debate under the title of 'Marxism and Critical Realism'.

**********************

NOW AVAILABLE:

*JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REALISM* Vol 1 No 2 May 2003


ARTICLES


JAMIE MORGAN
The global power of orthodox economics    7


BRANWEN GRUFFYDD JONES
'The massive presence of the past and the outside':
presences, absences and possibilities for emancipation
in the current global condition  35


CHRISTOPHER NORRIS
Response-dependence: what's in it for the realist?       61


DEBATE

ROY BHASKAR & ALEX CALLINICOS
Marxism and critical realism     91


REVIEW ARTICLES

JAMIE MORGAN
What is meta-Reality?
Alternative interpretations of the argument     115
(review article of Roy Bhaskar's recent books)


NICK HOSTETTLER
Form and substance in Capital
Theses on the relation between Capital and Dialectic    147
(review article, Andrew Brown et al., ed., CR and Marxism)


REJOINDER

HEIKKI PATOMÄKI
After international relations, after capitalism
A rejoinder to Branwen Gruffydd Jones                           175


REVIEW

BOB JESSOP
Critical realism and hegemony
Hic Rhodus, hic saltus   183
(review, Jonathan Joseph, Hegemony)




JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REALISM
  began life in 1998 as the newsletter of the International Association 
for Critical Realism (IACR) entitled Alethia. IACR was established in 
1997 to foster the discussion, propagation and development of critical 
realist approaches to understanding and changing the world. Alethia's 
main focus from the outset was the publication of scholarly articles. In 
2001 Alethia gave way to Journal of Critical Realism (incorporating 
Alethia) (unrefereed). From November 2002 Journal of Critical Realism 
will be peer reviewed, appearing in a new format and series.

Critical realist philosophy and social theory elaborate a general 
conceptual schema or meta-theory, via the immanent critique of other 
traditions and its own previous phases and the transcendental analysis 
of scientific and other human practices, for emancipatory science, i.e. 
science that makes genuine discoveries and can therefore help to promote 
human flourishing. It combines and reconciles epistemic relativism (all 
knowledge is socially produced, or transitive, and fallible) with 
judgemental rationalism (there are rational criteria for preferring one 
judgement or theory to another, genuine knowledge of the causally and/or 
existentially intransitive objects of science is possible) and 
ontological depth (the world is intransitive or irreducible to 
epistemology, transfactual or open, and stratified and emergent, hence 
differentiated and changing).

On such a view of the world, there is more to what is than what is 
known, more to laws of nature than regular succession, more to society 
than human agents and more to human agents than effects of society; and 
objective explanations need not be practically neutral.

Itself plural, open, and developing, critical realism is compatible 
with, and promotes, a wide range of emancipatory research programmes 
(which incorporate additional premises), and explicitly espouses 
methodological pluralism; every science is a science only insofar as it 
deploys a methodology appropriate to the specificities of its object. 
Critical realism is accordingly also plural in its political affinities 
within a broad emancipatory remit. Emancipation refers to the historical 
process of freedom whereby people remove constraints on the fulfilment 
of their needs and seek to create the positive social conditions for the 
full flourishing of their potential as a species. The theory of 
explanatory critiques and the dialectics of freedom (which are 
substantive as well as formal) suggest broadly how a unity of theory and 
political practice might be effected by movements for change, with 
realist science and social science playing an important role; while the 
recent work of a leading critical realist philosopher, Roy Bhaskar, 
elaborates a theory 'within the bounds of secularism, consistent with 
all faiths and no faith', of the spiritual presuppositions of 
emancipatory projects.

Critical realism is, indeed, arguably above all a philosophy and social 
theory of emancipation which seeks to grasp the historical process of 
freedom in thought and promote it in practice. It is coming to 
prominence within the academy simultaneously with the rise of a global 
movement for human emancipation which shares many of its insights. Both 
are premised on the understanding that a new human future of social 
justice, peace, care, solidarity, and ecological sustainability is 
possible and necessary; without such a future, the future as such is in 
jeopardy.

Journal of Critical Realism provides a forum for scholars wishing to 
promote realist emancipatory philosophy, social theory and science on an 
interdisciplinary and international basis, and for those who wish to 
engage with such an approach. Critical realism's intellectual power and 
vitality, together with the sheer range of its concerns across the gamut 
of human endeavour, will ensure that this leads to no inward looking 
provincialism. We envisage that much critical realist scholarship and 
research will continue to be published elsewhere and will actively 
promote exchanges, friendly as well as polemical, with other approaches.

Editorial policy

We will endeavour to promote, specifically:

"       Lively and original research and scholarship within the remit of 
the aims of the IACR
"       A genuine internationalism, in terms of subject matter, domicile 
of contributors, recommended pricing policy, and assistance to 
contributors with English language expression where necessary
"       Gender balance among contributors, and a flourishing younger 
generation of scholars
"       An authentic pluralism, both methodologically and in terms of 
political affinity
"       Interdisciplinarity of approach in keeping with the 
stratification, relationality and processuality of the world
"       Human emancipation-an accelerating and mutually enriching 
dialectic between critical realist philosophy, scientific research 
pursued within a range of research programmes (including the elaboration 
of concrete utopias), and movements for liberation

Editor: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>

Editorial Advisory Board
Margaret Archer (Warwick) Ted Benton (Essex), Roy Bhaskar (London) Bill 
Bowring (London) Thomas Brante (Örebro) Derek Brereton (Michigan) 
Gideon Calder (Cardiff) Bob Carter (Warwick) Noel Castree (Manchester) 
Alexander Clark (Glasgow) Andrew Collier (Southampton) Sean Creaven 
(Edinburgh) Justin Cruickshank (NTU) James Daly (Belfast) Berth 
Danermark (Örebro) Kathryn Dean (London) Hans Despain (Wesleyan), Peter 
Dickens (Cambridge, UK) Rada D'Souza (Waikato) Howard Engelskirchen 
(WSU) Pär Engholm (Uppsala) Hans Ehrbar (Utah) Norman Fairclough 
(Lancaster) Marshall Feldman (URI), Steve Fleetwood (Lancaster) Martha 
Gimenez (Colorado) Ruth Groff (York, Ca) Andrew Hagen (Rutgers) Cynthia 
Lins Hamlin (City, Br & Toronto) Gil-Soo Han (Monash) Nick Hostettler 
(London) Bob Jessop (Lancaster) Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Sussex) Jonathan 
Joseph (Aberystwyth) Anne Junor (UNSW, Au) Mansoor Kazi (Huddersfield) 
Ruth Kowalzyck (Lancaster) Hugh Lacey (Drexel) Derek Layder (Leicester) 
Julie Lawson (Amsterdam) Tony Lawson (Cambridge) Paul Lewis (Cambridge) 
Chris Lloyd (New England, Au) Terrence Lo (Hong Kong) José López 
(Nottingham) Gary MacLennan (QUT, Au) Karl Maton (Leicester) Andrew 
Mearman (New York) John Mingers (Warwick) Gnter Minnerup, (NSW)  Maria 
Mitropoulos (QUT) Jamie Morgan (Manchester) Ross Morrow (Newcastle, Au) 
Viren Viren Murthy (Chicago) Tobin Nellhaus (Yale) Peter Nielsen 
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Nielsen (Roskilde, Dk) Chris Norris (Cardiff) Wendy Olsen (Bradford) 
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Pinkstone (Western Sydney) Steve Pratten (London) Doug Porpora (Drexel) 
Garry Potter (Wilfrid Laurier, Ca) Jonathan Pratschke (Trinity, Dublin/ 
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In message <105409882.20030530194431-AT-unsw.edu.au>, Günter Minnerup 
<g.minnerup-AT-unsw.edu.au> writes
>Dear Mervyn,
>
>On Friday, May 30, 2003, you wrote:
>
>> Anyhow, as Ruth says, we're here! Where are your questions?
>
>OK, you asked for it :-) Will the Bhaskar-Callinicos debate be
>published?
>
>Regards,
>Gnter
>




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