Big Picture Perspectives on Planetary Flourishing (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113885624X ISBN 13: 9781138856240

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This volume is a ‘stand alone’ follow up and companion to the forthcoming volume Metatheory for the 21st-Century: Critical Realism and Integral Theory in Dialogue. Whereas Vol. I is primarily theoretical in its focus, this volume (Vol. II) will build on many of the theoretical foundations laid in Vol. I while applying them more concretely and practically to addressing the complex planetary crises of a new era that many scholars now refer to as ‘the Anthropocene.’

We live in a time when humanity’s powers have become so powerful and ubiquitous that our impact on nature has literally reached tectonic proportions. Welcome to the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002): a new epoch marked by the profound and far-reaching causal power of human, social life in shaping the trajectory of Earth system processes, including the climate system. The state of the world is thus profoundly influenced by the shortcomings of our dominant philosophies and metatheories and the collective self-understanding(s) they have produced. A key aim of this volume is thus to develop metatheoretical applications that serve emancipatory praxis toward a flourishing world.

This volume will be of interest to upper-undergraduate and post-graduate students of philosophy, sociology and critical realism.

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014) is the chief architect of the philosophy of critical realism. He died while this book was in preparation.

Sean Esbjorn-Hargens is the founder of MetaIntegral, a network of organizations that apply integrative metatheories to global challenges. He is also the executive editor of the "Journal of Integral Theory and Practice" and editor of the SUNY Series in Integral Theory.

Nicholas Hedlund is executive director of the Integral Research Center (www.integralresearchcenter.org) and a PhD researcher at University College London, Institute of Education, where he is conducting emancipatory social research into the philosophical, cultural, and psychological dimensions of climate change.

Mervyn Hartwig is founding editor of "Journal of Critical Realism "and principal author and editor of "Dictionary of Critical Realism.""

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 113885624X
• ISBN 13: 9781138856240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Hedlund Nicholas, Esbjörn-Hargens Sean