Author : David Joravsky
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN :
"The focus here is on Soviet Marxist philosophy of natural science, as it developed in its first phase, from 1917 to 1932." -- Preface.
Author : Helena Sheehan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1786634260
A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan shows how Marx and Engel’s ideas on the development and structure of natural science had a crucial impact on the work of early twentieth-century natural philosophers, historians of science, and natural scientists. With a new afterword by the author.
Author : David Joravsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135028451
Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism. In this volume the author correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution and against this background it is possible to understand why debates over general philosophy gave way to conflicts over specific sciences in the aftermath of the first Five Year Plan and why there was a genuine crisis in Soviet biology.
Author : Maria Rogacheva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107196361
A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.
Author : Loren R. Graham
Publisher :
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231064439
Soviet philosophy of science - dialectical materialism - is an area of intellectual endeavor that engages thousands of specialists in the Soviet Union but passes almost entirely unnoticed in the West. It is true that a few Western authors have examined Soviet discussions of individual problems in philosophy of science, such as philosophical issues of biology, or psychology; nonetheless, no one else in the last twenty-five years has tried to study in detail the relationship of dialectical materialism to Soviet science as a whole. It is an unusual experience, rewarding yet worrisome, to be the only scholar making this endeavor.
Author : Ethan Pollock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691124674
Introduction: Stalin, science, and politics after the Second World War -- "A Marxist should not write like that": the crisis on the "philosophical front" -- "The future belongs to Michurin": the agricultural academy session of 1948 -- "We can always shoot them later": physics, politics, and the atomic bomb -- "Battles of opinions and open criticism": Stalin intervenes in linguistics -- "Attack the detractors with certainty of total success": the Pavlov session of 1950 -- "Everyone is waiting": Stalin and the economic problems of communism -- Conclusion: science and the fate of the Stalinist system.
Author : David Joravsky
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781258789183
Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism. In this volume the author correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution and against this background it is possible to understand why debates over general philosophy gave way to conflicts over specific sciences in the aftermath of the first Five Year Plan and why there was a genuine crisis in Soviet biology.
Author : Stephen E. Hanson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807861901
Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. According to Hanson, westerners tend to envision time as both rational and inexorable. In a system in which 'time is money,' the clock dominates workers. Marx, however, believed that communist workers would be freed of the artificial distinction between leisure time and work time. As a result, they would be able to surpass capitalist production levels and ultimately control time itself. Hanson reveals the distinctive imprint of this philosophy on the formation and development of Soviet institutions, arguing that the breakdown of Gorbachev's perestroika and the resulting collapse of the Soviet Union demonstrate the failure of the idea.
Author : John Desmond Bernal
Publisher : New York : International Publishers
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1900007568
The achievements of science and technology during the past century are unparalleled in history. They provide the potential for the solution to all the problems faced by the planet, and equally for its total destruction. Allegedly scientific theories are being used to "prove" that criminality is caused, not by social conditions, but by a "criminal gene". Black people are alleged to be disadvantaged, not because of discrimination, but because of their genetic make-up. Of course, such "science" is highly convenient to right-wing politicians intent on ruthlessly cutting welfare. In the field of theoretical physics and cosmology there is a growing tendency towards mysticism. The "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe is being used to justify the existence of a Creator, as in the book of Genesis . For the first time in centuries, science appears to lend credence to religious obscurantism. Yet this is only one side of the story.
