12:04:08:12:11 Page 9 Page 9 Introduction Acronyms CM classical modernism CN critical naturalism CR critical realism DCR dialectical critical realism EC explanatory critique HM high modernism M the theory and practice of modernisation MELDARA or the stadia of the ontological–axiological chain or MELDARZ self-structuration of being PDM the philosophical discourse of modernity PM postmodernism PMR the philosophy of metaReality TDCR transcendental dialectical critical realism T/F bourgeois triumphalism and endism/ fundamentalism TR transcendental realism