This volume addresses the interlocking themes of realism, objectivity, existentialism and (eco-socialist) politics, based on critical realism. However, it moves beyond the purely scientific orientation of earlier contributions to this philosophy, to further develop the themes. The title essay defends objectivity in science, everyday knowledge, and ethics, and examines both subjective idealism and existentialist critiques of objectivity. The other essays examine some of the same themes but from different angles, keeping the politics of the issues at the forefront.
Author(s): Andrew Collier
Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
PART I......Page 14
The inorganic body and the ambiguity of freedom......Page 16
Value, rationality and the environment......Page 32
Unhewn demonstrations......Page 46
Critical realism and the heritage of the Enlightenment......Page 56
On slave rebellions in morals......Page 68
The right rebellion in the wrong cause: Heidegger, technology and the market......Page 78
Sartre: intimations of authenticity......Page 92
Sartre's mistaken approach to Marxism......Page 104
Berdyaev's socialism......Page 110
PART II......Page 138
In defence of objectivity......Page 140
Index......Page 254
