The Reality of Knowledge: Towards a Critical Realist Sociology of Knowledge

This book proposes a new approach to the sociology of knowledge, providing a cross-section of some of the major theories that have influenced and continue to influence the field. It will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social theory with interests in the sociology of knowledge and critical realist thought.

Philip D. Walsh is Associate Professor of Sociology and of Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. He is the author of Arendt Contra Sociology: Theory, Society and its Science and Skepticism, Modernity and Critical Theory.