Left realism - Open Access .click

2006
Abstract This chapter begins by asking two key questions: what is realism?; and, is there an issue here still worth arguing about? The answer to the first question is minimal or deflationary in spirit: realism is simply the view that most current commonsense and scientific objects exist, and that most claims about such objects are true ...
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Critical left-realism and sport interventions in divided societies

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2010
What, if any, is the value of sport to processes of peace and reconciliation? After introducing the largely rhetorical arguments for and against the value of using sport as a vehicle to promote peace building in divided societies, this article makes a more detailed and forensic examination of the evidence based on: the role played by sport in South ...
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Realism and the Left: the case of Hans J. Morgenthau

Review of International Studies, 2008
AbstractThe commonplace view that the intellectual roots of Hans J. Morgenthau’s Realist theory lie in conservative central European political traditions (such as Bismarckian Realpolitik) requires modification. The young Morgenthau was a protégé of one of Weimar Germany’s most prominent left-wing legal thinkers and barristers, Hugo Sinzheimer, a ...
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Feminist Commitment to Left-Wing Realism in The Golden Notebook

2015
Working with notions of realism, communism, and feminism in The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing speaks to our current, multivalent postmodern condition. Yet in 1962, the fractured aesthetic of the novel seemed to some too narrowly focused on personal issues among women rather than on wider social concerns of interest to the Left in its time, which could
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