From: Howard Engelskirchen (howarde@TWCNY.RR.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 10:46:50 EST
Hi Jerry, Confusion here is possible. The post you quote is from David Harvey, a sociologist at the University of Reno, Nevada. He has published a number of articles on critical realism in the Journal of Social Behavior with Mike Reed of UNR: "The New Science and The Old: Complexity and Realism in the Social Sciences" (1992). Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 22: 356-379. "The Evolution of Dissipative Systems" (1994). Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 17:371-341. "Social Science as the Study of Complex Systems." in L. Douglas Kiel and Euell Elliot (Eds.), Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996). "Agency and Community: A Critical Realist Paradigm," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 2 (June 2002). This is not the geographer, David Harvey, retired from Johns Hopkins and author of, e.g. The New Imperialism, Limits to Capital, etc. Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: <glevy@PRATT.EDU> To: <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: [OPE-L] David Harvey on Critical Realism > From the Critical-Realism mailing list. I have cleaned-up Harvey's > post by correcting a few typos. / In solidarity, Jerry > > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: Bhaskar message, Re [Critical-Realism] Historical Materialism > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Mervyn Hartwig wrote: > >> Hi Ismail > >> Bhaskar's view, which I share, is that the mature Marx is a scientific > >> realist and (dialectical) critical naturalist in the CR sense; i.e.the > >> philosophy implicitly informing his work is basically similar to CR. > >> (This doesn't mean that it isn't also consistent with other research > >> programmes). > >> So all you have to do is figure out the basic CR positions on persons, > >> society, geo-history, etc. and you have the specific homologies. > >> Plus figure out which ones show a direct influence - e.g. the > >> conception of society as an ensemble of social relations comes from > >> Marx. Bhaskar assesses and critiques Marx in some detail in DPF. > >> Hope this helps. > >> Mervyn > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "i.lagardien-alumni" <snip, JL> > >> Hi Everyone > >> Can someone identify, or clarify specific homologies between Critical > >> Realism and Historical Materialism, please. > >> Ismail <snip, JL> > > As a Critical Marxist, I can only second Mervyn's evaluation of Marx > and Critical Realism. I have found Bhaskar's work immensely helpful in > framing my sociological analysis. His TMSA is especially useful in > that it demands a material concreteness that dialectical sense that > often disciplines my research. I would venture a guess--and elict > comment as well--that Bhaskar's work performs ahomologous function > similar to that played by the triad of Wittgenstein/Sraffa/ Gramsci in > the thirties and forties in reframing Marxist thought. Lastly, and > most germane from a purely professional promotion perspective, Bhaskar, > along with Talcott Parsons and Pierre Bourdieu, also serves as a > valuable scapegoat when I screw up my analysis.
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