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99 | What is Dialectics? Part VI: From Explanation to Emancipation: Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism
🕑 Added 2024-10-14 10:00:15 +0000 UTCIn this episode, we discuss the philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar and his essays in Reclaiming Reality. We discuss whether it is possible for the human sciences to overcome the fact/value distinction, what role knowledge has in self-emancipation, and what to do about middle-class surburbanites who would rather watch the world burn than take a hit on their property values. Some highlights include the pod disagreeing on Althusser, Spinoza’s joy saving the day, and settling accounts with the role of the activist-intellectual in contemporary times.
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References:
Roy Bhaskar, Reclaiming Reality: A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2011).
Music:
“Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com
“My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN
Comments
David fryett
Forgot to mention there's a vid of Rangel and Robinson at Midwestern Marx youtube channel. What I like best is Robinson's anger.
David fryett
Thx, Justin. I read that piece some months ago and briefly corresponded with Rangel and Robinson abt it. I had written a screed about R. D. G. Kelley, Robinson's protege and guarddog in the House of Race, and they enjoyed it. Linked here if you are interested. It's way too long, but it was the bottled up frustration from 50 years of political activism being released. https://saveourcola3.blogspot.com/2024/07/racebots-in-raceworld-brief-history-of.html
Justin Thomas
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cult-of-cedric-robinsons-black-marxism-a-proletarian-critique/
Gil Morejon
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Antonio PT
I subscribed after listening to this episode. What a fantastic discussion of Bhaskar’s work and its implications. I had never heard of him but now I can’t wait to dig into his texts. Shared and recommended already too! Thanks
Louis Tessier
I was wondering if/when you'd be discussing Critical Realism. Thanks for this great, critical and thoughtful conversation! Personally CR really helped me a lot in guiding my own research on farmers, particularly in resolving methodological questions like: what's the point of doing empirical work, if it's all interpretation? Or does it make sense to use multiple methods, Or should we go beyond description but in fact attempt explanation and what's the role of social theory in that endeavour.... Your discussion on Bashkar's CR in relation to socialism made me further realize that I was actually looking for a philosophy of science that could underlabour the politics implicit in my research all along...
David fryett
Why don't you folks tackle the book that gave the ghetto a racism to call their own: Black Marxism.
David fryett
Another great show, thx, never heard of Bhaskar.
pelicans123
Sick, been meaning to check out Bhaskar, this’ll be a good intro!
