Böcker av Sean (University of the West of England) Creaven

Opposing the theist ontological logics more generally, this book argues that the earth-bound materialist dialectics of the classical Marxist tradition, and the naturalistic humanism these dialectics under-labour on the terrain of socio-historical being, offer a way forward for critical realist theory and for liberatory politics and ethics.

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