Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism

Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, the Science of Social Consciousness
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74519-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 360/1, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1161 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series / Bogdanov Library

Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature appears to be a dispassionate account of nature, life, the psyche, and society, based on the most up-to-date science, but, in fact, it has a Marxist goal: to defend the idea of historical materialism. After developing a thoroughly materialist, determinist view of reality, Bogdanov explains how forms of social labour determine the forms of human ideology. Cognition from the Historical Point of View explains the causal connections between labour, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, The Science of Social Consciousness, written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bogdanov, Alexander Aleksandrovich

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rowley, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

David G. Rowley, Ph.D. (1982), University of Michigan, is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He has published a number of articles on Alexander Bogdanov's thought and is the translator of several other volumes of the Bogdanov Library.