REALISM

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The terms 'Realism', 'Realist' (in reference to an adherent of "Realism"), or 'Realistic' may refer to...

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Art
Literature
International relations
Law
Philosophy
Physics
Other fields
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Art


Realism (arts), the depiction of subjects as they appear in life, without embellishment or interpretation


Realism (dramatic arts), the depiction of subjects on stage as they appear in everyday life


Realism (visual arts), this philosophy as applied to visual arts

Classical Realism, an artistic movement in late 20th Century painting placing a high value upon skill and beauty, combining elements of 19th Century Neoclassicism and Realism

Fantastic realism, referring to a 20th century group of artists in Vienna combining techniques of the Old Masters with religious and esoteric symbolism

Kitchen sink realism, an English cultural movement in the 1950s and 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television, focusing on relevant social realism of the day

Magic realism, an artistic genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting

Heroic realism, an umbrella term for styles of propaganda art


Nazi heroic realism, a style of propaganda art associated with Nazi Germany


Socialist realism, a style of propaganda art associated with Communism

Irrealism, an art movement that is either fantastical or based on the philosophy Nelson Goodman

New Realism, refers to an artistic movement founded in 1960 by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein

Photorealism, the genre of painting resembling a photograph

Poetic realism, a film movement in France in the 1930s using a heightened aestheticism that sometimes drew attention to the representational aspects of the films

Romantic realism, an aesthetic art term popularized by writer/philosopher Ayn Rand

Social realism, an artistic movement which depicts working class activities
Literature


Literary realism, a 19th-century literary trend toward depicting contemporary life and society as it is, rather than a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation

Dirty realism, a North American literary movement born in the 1970s-80s, deriving from minimalism, in which the narrative is stripped down to its fundamental features

Hysterical realism, a literary genre typified by a contrast between absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and detailed investigations of real social phenomena

Fantastic realism (literature), a literary genre incorporating occult studies

Psychological realism, a genre placing strong emphasis on interior characterization, sometimes employing interior monologue, to explain external actions

Swedish realism, the period in Swedish literature that encompassed the last two decades of the 19th century

Irrealism (disambiguation)

Kmart realism, a technique of modern fiction whereby popular cultural images are used conspicuously
International relations


Realism (international relations), a set of theories sharing a common theme that the primary motivation of states is the desire for power or security, rather than ideals or ethics

Liberal realism, also known as the "English school of international relations theory", a branch of 'political realism' maintaining that, despite the condition of 'international anarchy', there exists a 'society of states'

Defensive realism, a variant of realism in international relations coined by Stephen Walt, which looks at states as rational players who are the primary actors in world affairs, and that anarchy on the world stage causes states to increase their security, resulting in greater instability

Neorealism, or ''structural realism'', a theory of international relations outlined by Kenneth Waltz arguing in favor of a systemic, international structure acting as a constraint on state behavior

Offensive realism, similar to defensive realism in international relations, but also posits that anarchy on the world stage allows states to expand, and that states will exploit opportunities to expand whenever they are presented

Democratic Realism, a foreign policy strategy advanced in 2004 by Charles Krauthammer, calling for the US to spread democracy by force to strategically vital areas throughout the globe, particularly the Middle East

Subaltern realism, a theory of international relations emphasizing the divergence of Third World conditions from those of industrialized core states, and proposing an alternative conceptualization of security to that proposed by neorealism
Law


Legal realism, a family of theories whose essential tenet is that all law is made by human beings and thus subject to human foibles, frailties and imperfections

Left realism, in criminology, the ideological view on the phenomenon of crime from a left-wing perspective

Right Realism, in criminology, the ideological view on the phenomenon of crime from a right-wing perspective
Philosophy


Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel

Australian realism or ''Australian materialism'', a 20th Century school of philosophy in Australia, which founded the functionalist token identity theory of consciousness and the stronger type identity theory

Christian Realism, a philosophy advocated by Reinhold Niebuhr, asserting that the "kingdom of heaven" ideal is one's supreme concern, but which cannot be realized on Earth

Constructive realism, a philosophy of science developed in the late 1980s by Friedrich Wallner, aimed at maintaining traditional convictions of scientific knowledge while acknowledging relativism

Cornell realism, a view in meta-ethics, associated with the work of Richard Boyd, Nicholas Sturgeon, David Brink, and Peter Railton

Critical realism, a philosophy of perception concerned with the accuracy of human sense-data

Direct realism, a theory of perception claiming that the senses provide direct awareness of the external world

Entity realism, a philosophical position within the debate about scientific realism, declining commitment to judgments concerning the truth of scientific theories

Epistemological realism, metaphysical position maintaining knowledge of an object independent of mind

Hyper-realism, in semiotics and postmodern philosophy, a term for the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures

Irrealism, a school of philosophy based on the work of Nelson Goodman that regards any discussion of "Reality" as a world view.

Mathematical realism, a proposition in the philosophy of mathematics holding that mathematical entities exist independently of the human mind

Moderate realism, a position in the metaphysics of universals holding that universals are located in space and time wherever they are manifest

Modal realism, a philosophy propounded by David Lewis, that possible worlds are as real as the actual world

Moral realism, the view in philosophy that there are objective moral values, and a rejection of moral relativism

Mystical realism, a philosophy concerning the nature of the divine, advanced by the Russian philosopher Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev

Naive realism, a theory of perception thought to be representative of most people's understanding and method of interpretation of their perceptions

New realism (philosophy), a school of early 20th-century epistemology rejecting epistemological dualism

Organic realism, the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, now known as process philosophy

Philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers

Platonic realism, a philosophy articulated by Plato, positing the existence of universals

Quasi-realism, an expressivist meta-ethical theory which asserts that though our moral claims are projectivist we understand them in realist terms as part of our ethical experience of the world

Representative realism, the view in philosophy that we do not (and cannot) perceive the external world directly, but know only our ideas or interpretations of objects in the world

Scientific realism, a view in the philosophy of science about the nature of scientific success

Transcendental realism, a concept stemming from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, implying individuals have a perfect understanding of the limitations of their own minds

Truth-value link realism, a metaphysical concept meant to explain how to understand parts of the world that are apparently cognitively inaccessible
Physics


Realism in physics refers to the fact that Bell's theorem proves that every quantum theory must either violate local realism or counterfactual definiteness

Local realism, the combination of the principle of locality with the "realistic" assumption that all objects must objectively have pre-existing values for any possible measurement before these measurements are made
Other fields


Depressive realism, a contested theory that individuals suffering from clinical depression have a more accurate view of reality

Ethnographic realism, a style of ethnographic writing in anthropology and other social sciences, which narrates the author's experiences and observations as if the reader were witnessing events first-hand

Tactical realism, a genre of combat simulations in computer gaming

★ 'Realistic' is a discontinued brand of sound equipment made by RadioShack

Realism (album), a 2006 album by the German electronic band Steril

See also



Anti-realism

Irrealism

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