Critical realism, rationality and tourism knowledge

摘要: Abstract Positivism has been criticized on legitimate grounds for its absolutist and universalist claims. The tightening methodological binds that accompanied have adequately in the tourism academy. However, since fruitful enriching reaction of interpretive, linguistic critical turns another imbalance seems to penetrate knowledge production, disappearance reality concomitant spread a paralyzing relativism. Critical realism will be proposed as route regain ontological awareness within scholarship, with mild reservation is not completely rational. Hegel’s equation rationality rejected through an analysis irrational social world by reference Dionysian impulse.