The Clash of Globalisations: Neo liberalism, the Third Way and Anti Globalisation. By Ray Kiely
cal realism. For example, Habermas arguably maintains an implicit form of realism in his theory of communicative action. This can been seen especially in his readiness to abstract the underlying causal powers of communicative rationality in a manner reminiscent of Roy Bhaskar's or Margaret Archer's insistence that thought and reason have causal powers. Similarly many of the authors take seriously the complexity of Hegel's thought and refuse to dismiss it as simply being a totalising project that tries to reduce the world to a philosophy of identity. Again this move harks back to critical realism's early work on Marx and the former's serious engagement with the latter's dialectical thought and the refusal to dismiss Marx as a thinker who simply reduced the world to the identity of the economy. The book is also useful in bringing together the work of phenomenology and critical theory and in trying to analyse the relationship between inter subjectivity and what might be termed as (social) structures' For example, Redding's chapter on Bourdieu attempts to capture and genuinely consider this relationship and in this sense can be seen to dovetail some recent critical realist work on Bourdieu, particularly that of Andrew Sayer. Finally the book refuses to simply reject post structuralist theory but instead commits itself to looking into the possibilities of a realignment of critical theory with post structuralism. Once again, this bodes well for those interested in critical realism, since many in critical realism have themselves begun to undertake similar work. The book thus works extremely well as a collection and even if you do not agree with some of the authors' arguments they do nonetheless raise important questions and prompt you to seriously consider your own standpoint. For this reason alone the editors should be proud.