| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 266 pages) |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 111 |
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Bogdanov Library ; volume 8 |
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Historical materialism book series ; 111. 1570-1522
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Bogdanov Library
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| Contents |
What is philosophy? Who needs it and why? -- What came before philosophy? -- How did philosophy and science become distinguished from religion? -- What is materialism? -- Materialism of the ancient world -- Modern materialism -- Empiriocriticism -- Dialectical materialism -- Empiriomonism -- Labour causality -- Elements of experience -- Objectivity -- Sociomorphism -- Substitution -- The picture of the world -- Conclusion: the science of the future -- Appendix: From religious to scientific monism |
| Summary |
The Philosophy of Living Experience is the single best introduction to the thought of Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928), a Russian polymath who was co-founder, with Lenin, of the Bolshevik Party. His landmark achievements are Empiriomonism (1904-6), a philosophy of radical empiricism that he developed to replace what he considered to be the crude materialism of contemporary Marxists, and Tektology: Universal Organisational Science (1912-17), a precursor of cybernetics and systems theory. The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between the two; it is a final summing up of empiriomonism, an illustration of his theory of the social genesis of ideas, and an anticipation of Tektology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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Philosophy and religion.
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Philosophy
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philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy
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Philosophy and religion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rowley, David G., 1949- translator, editor, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9789004306462 |
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9004306463 |
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