Sean Creaven: 3 books

Book cover of Emergentist Marxism

Emergentist Marxism

Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

by Sean Creaven
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

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,...
Book cover of Marxism and Realism

Marxism and Realism

A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences

by Sean Creaven
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

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 voluntarism versus determinism and humanism versus economism.
Book cover of Against the Spiritual Turn

Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

by Sean Creaven
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

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...
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