Editing Roy Bhaskar (section)

== Influences ==
Bhaskar himself lists ten main influences on his early work, including philosophical work on the philosophy of science and [[Philosophy of language|language]]; the [[sociology of knowledge]]; [[Marx]] (particularly his conception of [[Praxis (process)|praxis]]); [[structuralist]] thinkers including [[Lévi-Strauss]], [[Chomsky]] and [[Althusser]]; the metacritical tradition of [[Hegel]], [[Kant]], and even [[Descartes]]; and [[perspectivalism]] in the hands of [[Nietzsche]], [[Fanon]], [[Gramsci]] and [[Gandhi]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhaskar|first=Roy|title=The formation of critical realism: a personal perspective|date=2010|publisher=Routledge|others=Mervyn Hartwig|isbn=978-0-415-45502-2|location=London|pages=33–4|oclc=455418555}}</ref>

His dialectical turn engaged more deeply with Hegel, and he called his work in that phase "a non-preservative sublation of Hegelian dialectic" since it draws heavily on Hegel's work but moves beyond and improves on it.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhaskar|first=Roy|title=Dialectic: the pulse of freedom|date=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-203-89263-3|location=London|page=xiii|oclc=263493107}}</ref> He also saw it as preserving and building on his own earlier work and on Marx's work and claimed that "Marx was a proto-dialectical critical realist" but that there remained residues of Hegelian thought in his work.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhaskar|first=Roy|title=Plato etc.: the problems of philosophy and their resolution|date=1994|publisher=Verso|isbn=0-86091-499-2|location=London|page=131|oclc=30703185}}</ref>

He abandoned further work on dialectical critical realism, however, after he experienced [[transcendental meditation]]. He turned his attention to a variety of Eastern traditions of philosophy, which were the major influences on his later turn to the philosophy of metareality.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhaskar|first=Roy|title=The formation of critical realism: a personal perspective|date=2010|publisher=Routledge|others=Mervyn Hartwig|isbn=978-0-415-45502-2|location=London|pages=146–9|oclc=455418555}}</ref>