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About: Realism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10799 publications have been published within this topic receiving 175785 citations.


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01 Mar 1977-Screen
TL;DR: The Big Flame as mentioned in this paper is a play written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach for BBC television, and it is a classic example of a play where realism is a highly variable and inherently complex term.
Abstract: The Big Flame is a play written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach for BBC television. I want to discuss it in relation to our understanding of realism. It should be clear at the outset that except in the local vocabulary of particular schools, realism is a highly variable and inherently complex term. In fact, as a term, it only exists in critical vocabulary from the mid-nineteenth century, yet it is clear that methods to which the term refers are very much older. Let me make just one obvious general distinction between conceiving realism in terms of a particular artistic method and conceiving realism in terms of a particular attitude towards what is called 'reality'. Now if, taking the first definition, we concentrate on method, we put ourselves at once in a position in which the method can be seen as timeless: in which it is, so to say, a permanent possibility of choice for any particular artist. Certain things can be learned from this kind of emphasis, but once we become aware of the historical variations within this method, we find ourselves evidently dissatisfied with the abstraction of a method which overrides its relations with other methods within a work or with other aims and intentions.

78 citations

Book
01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The authors surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors, which offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research.
Abstract: There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions. This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. This approach offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research. This illustrated through two policy examples: an account of post war migration to the UK, and debates about trans-racial adoption in the UK and the USA.

77 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a tendency has arisen to subsume political realism within the ideal/non-ideal theory debate, or to elide realism with nonideal theorising.
Abstract: The charge that contemporary political theory has lost touch with the realities of politics is common to both the recent ideal/non-ideal theory debate and the revival of interest in realist thought. However, a tendency has arisen to subsume political realism within the ideal/non-ideal theory debate, or to elide realism with non-ideal theorising. This article argues that this is a mistake. The ideal/non-ideal theory discussion is a methodological debate that takes place within the framework of liberal theory. Realism, contrary to several interpretations, is a distinct and competing conception of politics in its own right that stands in contrast to that of liberal theory. While the two debates are united in a sense that contemporary liberal theory needs to be more realistic, they differ significantly in their understanding of this shortcoming and, more importantly, what it is to do more realistic political theory.

77 citations

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TL;DR: New legal realists are not anti-economics (some of them are economists themselves), but they are challenging the new formalism's assumptions about the individual, the state, and judging, as well as its approach to legal scholarship.
Abstract: In 1930, during the Great Depression, Professor Karl Llewellyn declared in the Harvard Law Review that “ferment” was abroad in the land and legal scholarship, proclaiming “realism” a powerful scholarly force. In the past year, we have seen our own ferment: the world has shown us the folly of some of legal scholarship’s most powerful intellectual assumptions about the wisdom and rationality of markets and the inevitable failures of politics. These events should renew interest in “realist” approaches to law and render salient an emerging body of legal scholarship that has dubbed itself “new legal realism.” This Article surveys this scholarship and argues that “new legal realism” is a response to a “new formalism”—that derived from neoclassical law and economics. New legal realists are not anti-economics (some of them are economists themselves), but they are challenging the new formalism’s assumptions about the individual, the state, and judging, as well as its approach to legal scholarship. This Article assesses and critiques the various forms of new-legal-realist scholarship, from behavioral economics to legal empiricism, and offers suggestions about future directions for a scholarly agenda more capable of addressing our vulnerable national order. We argue that new legal realism in its many forms holds out greater promise than existing formalisms. At the same time, we contend that some forms of “new legal realism” risk reducing law to other academic ideas or to unimportance altogether. Here, we begin the effort to outline a “dynamic new realism” that emphasizes the best of the old realism without indulging its excesses. Our form of dynamic realism focuses on “mediating” theory, which aims selfconsciously to theorize the bridge between the world and legal institutions without reducing one to the other. We believe that law cycles recursively over time between the world and legal institutions, which is why empirical and

77 citations

Book
12 Jan 1995
TL;DR: Realism in the postwar world late modernism as social critique politics and history in the Caribbean after social realism dilemmas of the contemporary liberal feminist critical fiction postmodernism and the problem of history from realism to realisms as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Realism in the postwar world late modernism as social critique politics and history in the Caribbean after social realism dilemmas of the contemporary liberal feminist critical fiction postmodernism and the problem of history from realism to realisms.

77 citations


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20221,471
2021265
2020314
2019346
2018345