Ethics and emancipation in action: concrete utopias.

This is an edited transcript of a keynote paper given at IACR's 2021 Annual Conference. The paper outlines a critical realist approach to critique and illustrates its application to the contemporary economy. It argues that responsible, constructive critique depends on ethics, on causal explanation,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 539 - 552
Autor principal: Elder-Vass, Dave
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2022
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