Following up on this post, then there's postmetatheory as highlighted in the Introduction to
"Metatheory in the 21st Century." I appreciate that Murray's last
chapter was valued for 'prepositioning' metatheory itself, something
I've long harped on in the relationship of image schema to differance.
Also how it anchors abstract metatheory in the body, for without that
it's just more 'complex' but less 'real,' more metaphysical and less
postmetaphysical. Of course it we use metatheory's usual definitions and
assumptions then postmetatheory would transcend and include and thereby
supersede metatheory, thereby outmeta-ing the meta. Poetic justice,
that. (A draft of that chapter can be found here). E.g.:
"The final chapter of the volume
is Tom Murray’s "Contributions of Embodied Philosophy to
Ontological Questions in Critical Realism and Integral Theory”.
This chapter takes a different approach than previous chapters
in that it is less concerned with the relationship or possible
synthesis between critical realism and integral theory. Instead, Murray
draws on the field of embodied philosophy (a la Lakoff and
Johnson’s position of embodied realism) to augment both CR and IT. He
introduces a number of the core distinctions and findings of
embodied realism and illustrates how these notions can ground
integrative metatheories like CR and IT. He focuses on
epistemological and ontological issues, which is quite useful given that
it is within these contexts that most of the philosophical
challenges and opportunities exist between these two approaches. In
some respects this final chapter represents position 0 in that it
foregrounds the process of integrative metatheorizing and helps
establish the clearing of such metathinking and meta-practice" (28-9).
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