Savita Singh

Radhika Rai is most unhappy when she has to shift to Noida to her paternal grandmother's house along with her mother and her brother since the place their father, Brigadier Rai, is posted is declared a non-family station, a hard field in army lingo. In Noida, a new lift has been installed for the convenience of the Rai family. Radhika's grandmother gives her a fascinating journal written by an ancestor of hers. Radhika is immersed in it and one night, she goes down for a breath of fresh air when a freak burst of lightening hits the lift and she is thrown into an adventure of a lifetime with unbelievable twists and turns. Along the way, she is ably helped by her friends and her sprightly grandmother.

This book on the philosophy of critical realism and meta-Reality and its development is based on conversations between Roy Bhaskar, the originator of the philosophy, and Savita Singh, a distinguished Indian poet and social theorist. The wide range of topics covered include the priority of being over thought, reversing the traditional emphasis in the West; transcendence as an everyday phenomenon; the prefiguration of the good society in the characteristic labour of women; the metacritique of Nietzsche and Derrida, and of Marx and Marxism; recognition and immortality; and the principle of hermeticism: there is no authority but yourself. The book will appeal to anyone wanting to understand Roy Bhaskar’s thought, and offers a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in critical realism and its development.

This book on the philosophy of critical realism and meta-Reality and its development is based on conversations between Roy Bhaskar, the originator of the philosophy, and Savita Singh, a distinguished Indian poet and social theorist. The wide range of topics covered include the priority of being over thought, reversing the traditional emphasis in the West; transcendence as an everyday phenomenon; the prefiguration of the good society in the characteristic labour of women; the metacritique of Nietzsche and Derrida, and of Marx and Marxism; recognition and immortality; and the principle of hermeticism: there is no authority but yourself. The book will appeal to anyone wanting to understand Roy Bhaskar’s thought, and offers a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in critical realism and its development.