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Reflections on MetaReality

Reflections on MetaReality is now widely regarded as a landmark in contemporary philosophy. It initiates the philosophy of metaReality, the third main phase of Roy Bhaskars philosophical thoughts, after original or basic critical realism and dialectical critical realism. Originally published in 2002 and based on talks given in India, Europe and America, Reflections on MetaReality presents Roy Bhaskars new philosophy of metaReality as a radical extension, systematic development and proleptic completion of critical realism.

This brilliant series of studies contains seminal and far-reaching discussions of critical realism and the nature of being; an incisive and limpid account of modernity, modernism and post-modernism; a sublime discourse on the nature of the self; and compelling considerations of the relationship between social science and self-realisation. Together, they demonstrate the ubiquity of transcendental phenomena in everyday life and the orientation of enlightenment towards collective human emancipation and universal self-realisation.

A new introduction to this edition by Mervyn Hartwig, founding editor of the Journal of Critical Realism and editor and major author of A Dictionary of Critical Realism (Routledge, 2007), describes the context, significance and impact of Reflections on MetaReality and supplies an expert guide to its content. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners in both philosophy and the human sciences.

Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and the author of many acclaimed and influential works, including A Realist Theory of Science; The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation; Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom; Plato Etc.; From Science to Emancipation and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. Among his edited volumes are Critical Realism: Essential Readings, Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and Ecophilosophy in a World of Crisis. He was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism; and is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education.

Classical Texts in Critical Realism

Other titles in this series:

Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom

Roy Bhaskar

Reclaiming Reality

A critical introduction to contemporary philosophy

Roy Bhaskar

Plato Etc.

The problems of philosophy and their resolution

Roy Bhaskar

Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation

Roy Bhaskar

A Realist Theory of Science

Roy Bhaskar

Dialectic

The pulse of freedom

Roy Bhaskar

Reflections on MetaReality

Transcendence, emancipation and everyday life

Roy Bhaskar

Reflections on MetaReality

Transcendence, emancipation and everyday life

Roy Bhaskar

First edition published 2002
By Sage Publications

This edition first published 2012
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Contents

The world we have created today as a result of the thinking thus far, has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them.

Albert Einstein

We are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent. We are now witnessing the birth of a new world, it is very young, very weaknot in its essence, but in its outer manifestationnot yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here. It is here, making an effort to grow, absolutely sure of the result. But the road to it is a completely new road which has never been traced out: nobody has gone there, nobody has done that! It is a beginning, a universal beginning. So, it is an absolutely unexpected and unpredictable adventure.

The Mother (Sage of Pondicherry)

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

Jelaluddin Rumi

New Introduction*

Acronyms

CM	classical modernism
CN	critical naturalism
CR	critical realism
DCR	dialectical critical realism
EC	explanatory critique
HM	high modernism
M	the theory and practice of modernisation
PM	postmodernism
PDM	the philosophical discourse of modernity
PMR	the philosophy of metaReality
TDCR	transcendental dialectical critical realism
T/F	bourgeois triumphalism and endism/fundamentalism
TR	transcendental realism

S ince the victory of capitalism over actually existing socialism towards the end of the last century, the tragifarce of Western bourgeois triumphalism and endism has played to the accompaniment of a dolorous chorus of Leftist theorists intoning that our situation as a species is dire, sealed and secured by the logic of capital. The philosophy of metaReality is a profound meditation on spirituality understood in this way a spirituality within the bounds of secularism, consistent with all faiths and no faith (p. 93) that is both of the world, uniting us with it at the deepest level of our being, and continuously engaged in it.

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