Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:54:05 +1100
From: Rob Schaap <rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au>
Subject: M-TH: Critical Realism?


G'day Yoshie,

You write:

>As I wrote, critical realism helps us to clarify how and why false choices
>are produced.

I hear so much of critical realism, yet am left guessing at what it might
entail.  I guess the Marx who criticised Feuerbach was a critical realist -
I guess a focus on the relation constituted by an act of apprehension is a
critical realist focus - I guess it's the epistemology of the formally
educated Marxist today.

I guess, but I dunno.

Is it possible to enlighten me in a post of less than 10k?  Or even a
couple of accessible introductory references?  I stress 'accessible'
because, like Ralph, I cannot make head nor tail of Bhaskar - nor much more
of the Bhaskar list, I'm afraid.  I should like to pursue a modest little
theoretical thread like this if anyone's game.

Thanks muchly,
Rob.


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into the domain of the works undertaken by capital itself, indicates
the degree to which the real community has constituted itself in
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