Contents:
1. Introduction: Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction
Jonathan Joseph and
John Michael Roberts Part One: Realism and Critical Discourse Analysis 2. Critical Realism and Semiosis
Norman Fairclough, Bob Jessop and
Andrew Sayer 3. Critical Realism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Concrete Research
Martin Jones 4. How Might the Inclusion of Discursive Approaches Enrich Critical Realist Analysis? The Case of Environmentalism
Jenneth Parker Part Two: Voloshinov and Bakhtin 5. Will the Materialists in the Bakhtin Circle Please Stand Up?
John Michael Roberts 6. Value and Contract Formation
Howard Engelskirchen Part Three: Realism and Post-Marxism 7. Lost in Transit: Reconceptualising the Real
Neil Curry 8. Laclau and Mouffe and the Discursive Turn: Gains and the Losses
Kathryn Dean Part Four: Realism and Eurocentric Discourse 9. Eurocentrism, Realism and the Anthropic Carthography of Emancipation
Rajani Kanth 10. The Dialectics of Realist Theory and the Eurocentric Problem of Modern Discourse
Nick Hostettler 11. Limited Incorporation or Sleeping with the Enemy: Reading Derrida as a Critical Realist
Colin Wight 12. Dialectics, Deconstruction and the Legal Subject
Alan Norrie 13. Learning to Live (with Derrida)
Jonathan Joseph 14. Deconstructing Anti-Realism: Derrida's 'White Mythology
Christopher Norris