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(1987) New philosophies of social science, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Realism and critical theory

William Outhwaite

pp. 77-91

The "critical theory" of what came to be called the Frankfurt School has been so fully discussed that there is no point in providing yet another outline history here.1 I shall be concerned almost entirely with the work of Jürgen Habermas, and I shall refer to the earlier generation of critical theorists only to set the scene for a juxtaposition of Habermas and Bhaskar.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18946-5_6

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Outhwaite, W. (1987). Realism and critical theory, in New philosophies of social science, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-91.

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