Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Critical Realism
评论托尼·劳森关于批判现实主义促进女性主义经济学解放性项目的论点,指出其拒绝社会原子主义和方法论个人主义的优势,以及依赖人文主义能动性概念的弱点。
Tony Lawson (1999) argues that critical realism will facilitate revelatory and emancipatory projects in feminist economics. The strength of Lawson's argument lies in its rejection of social atomism and methodological individualism. Societies are best understood as structurally connected systems rather than as atomistic aggregates. Its weakness lies in its reliance on a humanist conception of human agency, a conception that is increasingly questioned by some feminists.