Empiriomonism

Essays in Philosophy, Books 1–3

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvAlexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov,David Rowley

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Empiriomonism is Alexander Bogdanov’s scientific-philosophical substantiation of Marxism. In Books One and Two, he combines Ernst Mach’s and Richard Avenarius’s neutral monist philosophy with the theory of psychophysical parallelism and systematically demonstrates that human psyches are thoroughly natural and are subject to nature’s laws. In Book Three, Bogdanov argues that empiriomonism is superior to G. V. Plekhanov’s outdated materialism and shows how the principles of empiriomonism solve the basic problem of historical materialism: how a society’s material base causally determines its ways of thinking. Bogdanov concludes that empiriomonism is of the same order as materialist systems, and, since it is the ideology of the productive forces of society, it is a Marxist philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-19
Mått155 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt888 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBogdanov Library
Antal sidor450
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004300316
ÖversättareDavid Rowley

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PrefaceThe Autobiography of Alexander BogdanovBogdanov as a ThinkerV.A. BazarovBook One1 The Ideal of Cognition (Empiriomonism of the Physical and the Psychical)2 Life and the Psyche1 The Realm of Experiences2 Psychoenergetics3 The Monist Conception of Life3 Universum (Empiriomonism of the Separate and the Continuous)Conclusion to Book OneBook Two4 The ‘Thing-in-Itself’ from the Perspective of Empiriomonism5 Psychical Selection (Empiriomonism in the Theory of the Psyche)1 Foundations of the Method2 Applications of the Method (Illustrations)6 Two Theories of the Vital-DifferentialBook Three7 Preface to Book Three1 Three Materialisms2 Energetics and Empiriocriticism3 The Path of Empiriomonism4 Regarding Eclecticism and Monism8 Social Selection (Foundations of the Method)9 Historical Monism1 Main Lines of Development2 Classes and Groups10 Self-Awareness of Philosophy (The Origin of Empiriomonism)BibliographyIndex

"As Bazarov mentions, one of the concepts with a great variety of applications in Tektology is the ‘law of the leasts’, the fact that people and things take the path of least resistance. This has certainly applied to the way Bogdanov’s ideas have been treated over the years. Instead of investigating what Bogdanov actually wrote, verdicts stemming from Lenin and Plekhanov have been repeated uncritically. This was understandable so long as Bogdanov’s works remained inaccessible. With this translation of Empiriomonism, this need no longer be the case." - James D. White, University of Glasgow, in: Europe-Asia Studies 72/10 (2020)"… Rowley’s excellent translation will not only permit a wide new audience to explore the grand systems and historical forays of Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism – it also illuminates a particular moment where various strains of Marxism debated the very relationship between understanding and changing the world: a generative conflict between Bogdanov and Lenin." - Nicholas Bujalski, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2021) [Full review]