First published in 2002 as The Philosophy of meta-Reality, Volume 1, this is the definitive volume in which Roy Bhaskar, originator of the influential philosophy of critical realism, systematically expounds the principles of his new philosophy of meta-Reality.
meta-Reality demonstrates how transcendence and non-duality are necessary and ubiquitous features of all social interaction and human agency; and how these and connected features of human being and activity sustain the totality of the structures of the world of duality and oppression in which we live. Moreover, it argues that any objective an agent chooses in life will ultimately set him or her on a process or dialectic to self-realization. Building on a radically new analysis of the self, human agency and society, Bhaskar shows how the world of alienation and crisis we currently inhabit is sustained by the ground-state qualities of creativity, love, intelligence or the capacity for right-action and the potential for human self-realization or fulfillment.
Originally intended as the first of a four-volume work on the philosophy of meta-Reality, this new edition of meta-Reality is re-released with its companion volumes, Reflections on meta-Reality and From Science to Emancipation. meta-Reality will surely provide an inspiration and invaluable reference book for all concerned with the project of universal self-realisation.