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On Sean Creaven's Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

On Sean Creaven's Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (345–355) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Bhaskar 1998. Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences S EAN C REAVEN London: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism, 2000 Reviewed by B RANWEN G RUFFYDD J ONES Critical realism is described by some of its proponents as a ‘movement’; it develops themes such as critique and emancipation, and has traditionally tended to attract people on the Left, including Marxists. So what is the relationship between critical realism and Marxism? Critical realism was rooted initially in Roy Bhaskar ’s defence of realism in the philosophy of science and social science, articulated in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, critical realism has grown in different directions. Roy Bhaskar ’s own philosophy has moved far beyond his initial scientific realism and critical naturalism, through dialectical and transcendental dialectical stages, to his latest elaboration of ‘meta-reality’. Bhaskar ’s early work makes fairly frequent references to Marx, and occasionally deals explicitly with Marx as a (indeed perhaps the first) realist social scientist. Bhaskar’s social ontology elaborated in The Possibility of Naturalism , 1 the Transformative Model of Social http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

On Sean Creaven's Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

Jones, Branwen Gruffydd
Historical Materialism , Volume 12 (3): 345 – Jan 1, 2004
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Historical Materialism , volume 12:3 (345–355) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Bhaskar 1998. Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences S EAN C REAVEN London: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism, 2000 Reviewed by B RANWEN G RUFFYDD J ONES Critical realism is described by some of its proponents as a ‘movement’; it develops themes such as critique and emancipation, and has traditionally tended to attract people on the Left, including Marxists. So what is the relationship between critical realism and Marxism? Critical realism was rooted initially in Roy Bhaskar ’s defence of realism in the philosophy of science and social science, articulated in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, critical realism has grown in different directions. Roy Bhaskar ’s own philosophy has moved far beyond his initial scientific realism and critical naturalism, through dialectical and transcendental dialectical stages, to his latest elaboration of ‘meta-reality’. Bhaskar ’s early work makes fairly frequent references to Marx, and occasionally deals explicitly with Marx as a (indeed perhaps the first) realist social scientist. Bhaskar’s social ontology elaborated in The Possibility of Naturalism , 1 the Transformative Model of Social

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