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1. Against the Spiritual Turn

   Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

   By Sean Creaven

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (...

   Published January 19th 2011 by Routledge
2. Emergentist Marxism

   Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

   By Sean Creaven

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness,...

   Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
3. Marxism and Realism

   A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

   By Sean Creaven

   This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as...

   Published March 30th 2007 by Routledge