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How Roy Bhaskar talked about the spiritual turn before it was released

Thanks to Dave Elder-Vass for sending a 1999 interview with Roy Bhaskar. I don’t want to upload the full document but happy to share with anyone who contacts me. I was fascinated to see how he trailed the spiritual turn before the first book in the series was released:

I’m currently working on an exploration of the way in which we can draw on the resources of traditions and worldviews other than those of the west. On a book called East and West, which has a theoretical component and a component which is more popular in form – which actually takes the form of a novel. This is very connected to an earlier answer I gave, for if we are to have the cultural and spiritual resources that we need to generate a true alternative to and a true sublation of the tradition that has given us capitalism, etc., we must draw on the traditions of the East as well as those of the West. Greek and traditional Christian resources are our contemporary academic philosophical tradition, but looking at ancient Hindu philosophy, at Buddhism, at Confucianism, at Islam – going back to explore the origins and roots of Christianity, all this might give us the resources to fulfil the true potential of human beings and save our planet.

This is linked up to my other feeling that not only has Western philosophy drawn on far too restricted traditions, but it has also couched itself in a pretty inaccessible mode. I’m aware of the paradox that I have talked about human emancipation but in a relatively inaccessible form! So I’m writing a story, which I hope will be universally accessible, this will be backed up by theoretical works.

How did the man who wrote Reclaiming Reality, which has passages of such analytical lucidity that I find them genuinely breathtaking, end up writing this sentence only ten years later: “for if we are to have the cultural and spiritual resources that we need to generate a true alternative to and a true sublation of the tradition that has given us capitalism, etc., we must draw on the traditions of the East as well as those of the West”!?

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