Dialectic and Difference - 9780415560368

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Dialectic and DifferenceDialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice\nAuthor(s): Alan Norrie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415560368, 978-0415560368\nSynopsis\nDialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskars dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. \n\nThat philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a critical realisation of dialectic, and a metacritique of western philosophy. In the first, real absence or negativity links structured being to dialectical becoming in a dynamic world. The second draws on Marx to locate the critical impulse in Hegels dialectic in a material, open and changing totality. The third identifies a central problem in western philosophy from the Greeks on, the failure to think real negativity as the essence of change (ontological monovalence). \n\nBhaskars ethics connect basic human ontol.