This clear and accessible book will be of use to social theorists and politcal scholars, to all those looking for a new understanding of the complex relationship between Kant, Hegel, Marx and Engels and to those who seek an introduction to dialectical critical realism in general and its relationship to these giants of German philosophy in particular.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Critcal Realism before the Dialectic
2. Dialectical Critical Realism
3. Kant
4. Hegel
5. Marx and Engels
Conclusion
Biography
Jolyon Agar is a lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. His research interests include the philosophy of natural and social science, especially Kant, Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the critical realism of Roy Bhaskar.