Critical Realism and Concrete Utopias.
The role of Concrete Utopias in the works of Roy Bhaskar are contrasted with the 'Real Utopias' of Erik Olin Wright. Critical Realism treats them as 'possibilities' that are real because realizable. Conversely, to Wright, they are extrapolations of existing social forms whose future combination coul...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 239 - 258 |
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