1 Childhood and University |
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1.1 A Natural Philosopher |
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1.2 Solidarising with the Oppressed |
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1.3 Engaging with Marx, Marxism and 'Third-World' Revolutionary Movements |
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1.5 Early Theoretical Work |
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2 Transcendental Realism and Critical Naturalism |
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2.1 Breaking the Taboo on Ontology |
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23 | (2) |
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2.2 A New Understanding of the Natural World: Transcendental Realism |
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25 | (4) |
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2.3 Rethinking the Problem of Naturalism |
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2.3.1 Critique of Hermeneutics |
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2.3.2 Transcending the Dualisms of Social Science |
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35 | (3) |
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2.3.3 The Main Moments of Critical Realism: A Brief Overview |
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38 | (2) |
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2.3.4 Why Philosophers Have Tended to Ignore Critical Realism |
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40 | (1) |
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2.3.5 The Transition from Transcendental Realism to Critical Naturalism Revisited |
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41 | (4) |
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2.3.6 The Main Differences Between the Natural and the Social Sciences and Their Objects |
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2.3.7 Epistemological Dialectic Without End? |
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3 The Transitions to Dialectical Critical Realism and the Theory of Everyday Transcendence |
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3.1 Getting Dialectic Right |
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3.2 The Existence of Negation in Reality |
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3.3 The Developmental Structure of Dialectical Critical Realism |
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3.4 A New Theory: Everyday Transcendence and Creativity |
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4 How False Theories Work: TINA Formations and the Critique of Irrealism |
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4.1 Positivism and Critical Realism |
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4.2 TINA Compromise Formations and the Asymmetry of Emancipation |
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71 | (5) |
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4.3 Categories of Negation and the Critique of Irrealism |
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5 Recovery of Truth and the Dialectic of Self-realisation |
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5.1 Recovering Truth and Escaping from Mystification |
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5.2 The Question of Self-change and Social Transformation |
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6 God, the Cosmic Envelope and the Self |
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6.1 Fathoming the Depths of the Self |
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6.2 The Further Transcendental Deepening of Critical Realism |
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6.3 The Cosmic Envelope and Its Relation to God and the Universe |
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6.4 The Tripartite Self and the Goal of Self-realisation |
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6.5 Critiques Entrained by the New Philosophy |
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6.5.1 A Radical Critique of Religious and Spiritual Practices |
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6.5.2 Direct Understanding and the Critique of Hermeneutics |
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123 | (4) |
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6.5.3 Critique of Marxism |
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127 | (1) |
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6.6 Radical Hermeticism and the Dialectical Learning Process of Life |
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7 The Emotions, Thought and Self-realisation |
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7.2 Mind, Thought, Consciousness |
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8 Critique of Modernism and Postmodernism |
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8.1 Modernism in India and the West |
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153 | (9) |
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8.2 Postmodernism and Poststructuralism |
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8.2.1 Foucault, Derrida, Levinas, Rorty |
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162 | (7) |
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8.2.2 Endless Repetition of the Same |
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8.2.3 Insights of Modernism and Postmodernism |
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9 The Question of Women |
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181 | (12) |
10 Recognition and Immortality, Failure and Success |
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10.1 Recognition and Immortality |
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193 | (9) |
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10.2 Failure and Principles of Success |
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11 Re-enchanting Reality: Practical Ways to Become Freer |
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213 | (12) |
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11.1 Overcoming Dualism and Dichotomy in Practice |
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213 | (2) |
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11.2 Demystifying Self-realisation |
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215 | (2) |
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11.3 The Role of the Spiritual Teacher |
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217 | (2) |
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11.4 Reality as Always Already Enchanted |
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12 Conclusion |
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Appendix: Metacritique of Marx and Marxism |
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237 | (4) |
References |
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