Alan Norrie has recently taken up a Chair in Law at the University of Warwick. He was previously Drapers' Professor of Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College and Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at King's College London. He has a longstanding interest in critical realist philosophy and is President of the International Association for Critical Realism.

Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. This text is essential reading for all serious students of social theory, philosophy, and legal theory.

1. Intro: Natural Necessity, Being and Becoming 2. Accentuate the Negative 3. Diffracting Dialectic 4. Opening Totality 5. Constellating Ethics 6. Metacritique I: Philosophy's 'Primordial Failing' 7. Metacritique II: Dialectic and Difference 8. Conclusion: Natural Necessity and the Grounds of Justice