From: "Howard Engelskirchen" <howarde-AT-twcny.rr.com>
Subject: BHA: Re: A Dictionary of Critical Realism--Area Surveys
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:30:36 -0400



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From: "Mervyn Hartwig" <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>
To: "bhaskar" <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:33 AM
Subject: BHA: A Dictionary of Critical Realism--Area Surveys


> Hi all,
> 
> I'm editing/writing A Dictionary of Critical Realism, to be published by 
> Routledge in 2005.
> 
> In addition to conventional dictionary topic entries ('Topics'), the 
> longer themed essays for which ('Key Topics') will be farmed out to 
> specialists in the respective fields, the dictionary is to include a 
> 'handbook' element which I'm referring to as 'Area Surveys'. These will 
> give an indication of what has been accomplished in the various fields 
> to which CR has been applied, and also just as importantly what might 
> perhaps be accomplished, together with recommended reading. Below is a 
> preliminary list of the areas for which I'd like to see entries; I've 
> included a few (e.g. 'music') where I'm not aware that any CR work has 
> been done in case there is someone out there who can see the potential 
> and knows how to write about it. The length of such entries will vary 
> from a few hundred to 1,500 words, depending largely on the extent of 
> work done in a field.
> 
> I'd be very interested to receive off-list any ideas for the amendment, 
> extension or contraction of this list, and in particular expressions of 
> interest  in authoring any of them. Your deadline would be 31st July 
> 2004. In asking for expressions of interest I'm not of course making any 
> commitments at this stage about authorship. Authors will have copyright 
> over their material.
> 
> 1.      accounting
> 2.      aesthetics, art
> 3.      anthropology
> 4.      archaeology and prehistory
> 5.      the body, sociology of
> 6.      complexity and chaos theory
> 7.      computer science/logic
> 8.      criminology
> 9.      cultural studies
> 10.     development and underdevelopment
> 11.     ecology
> 12.     economic history
> 13.     economics  (incl. evolutionary; institutional etc)
> 14.     education
> 15.     ethics
> 16.     ethnography
> 17.     globalization
> 18.     health, medical sociology
> 19.     history, philosophy of history
> 20.     history of ideas
> 21.     human geography
> 22.     industrial relations
> 23.     international relations
> 24.     labour process, labour market
> 25.     legal studies
> 26.     life sciences
> 27.     linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics
> 28.     literature, literary theory
> 29.     logic
> 30.     management  science
> 31.     marxism, critical realism and
> 32.     method, methodology
> 33.     music
> 34.     philosophy of (natural) science
> 35.     philosophy of social science
> 36.     political economy
> 37.     political theory
> 38.     postmodernism, poststructuralism, posthumanism (CR engagement 
> with)
> 39.     psychoanalysis
> 40.     psychology, social psychology
> 41.     evolutionary psychology
> 42.     semiosis
> 43.     social evolution
> 44.     social theory
> 45.     sociology
> 46.     applied sociology
> 47.     sociology of knowledge, incl. science
> 48.     sociology of religion
> 49.     political sociology
> 50.     statistics, social statistics
> 51.     sustainability
> 52.     system theory
> 53.     theology, CR and (liberation, scientific, etc)
> 54.     urban studies
> 55.     women's studies, feminist theory
> 
> In a few cases (e.g. ethics) the names of entries are those also 
> scheduled for Key Topics, in which case there will not of course be two 
> entries, but one. The provisional list of Key Topics is as follows. 
> Entries here will be about 1,500 words, except for the first, which will 
> be longer.
> 
> i.      critical realism
> ii.     ontology (referential detachment [intransitivity, reality 
> principle] stratification [transfactuality, alethic truth])
> iii.    laws, scientific and causal (generative mechanism, tendency, 
> open and closed systems, etc)
> iv.     absence (negativity)/ causality/ change: absence/negation, 
> constraint/ contradiction
> v.      space-time (spatio-temporality) (rhythmics + process), tense
> vi.     emergence
> vii.    totality (internal relationality and holistic causality; 
> concrete universal/singular)
> viii.   alienation
> ix.     action and agency
> x.      social structure and agency
> xi.     knowledge, theory of (epistemology, epistemological dialectic)
> xii.    truth, theory of
> xiii.   (explanatory) critique (incl. ideology)
> xiv.    emancipatory axiology (praxis) incl. emancipatory critique
> xv.     ethics
> xvi.    dialectic
> xvii.   irrealism (metacritique)
> 
> 
> You comments and/or expressions of interest would be very much 
> appreciated.
> 
> Mervyn Hartwig
> 
> P. S. I'm sending this also to the IACR membership. My apologies if you 
> receive it twice.
> 
> 
> 
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