Soviet Marxism and Natural Science 1917–1932 / / David Joravsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Joravsky, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1961]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 1961
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Studies of the Russian Institute --; Contents --; Preface --; Part One. The Pre-Revolutionary Heritage --; 1. Orthodox Marxism and Natural Science --; 2. Lenin and the Partyness of Philosophy --; Part Two. The Soviet Setting 1917–1929 --; 3. Intra-Party Politics and Philosophy --; 4. The Cultural Revolution and ‘Bourgeois’ Scientists --; 5. The Cultural Revolution and Marxist Philosophers --; Part Three. The Anomalous Rejection of Positivism --; 6. Mechanism as a Tendency --; 7. The First Challenges to Mechanism, 1922–1924 --; 8. The Formation of Factions, 1924–1926 --; 9. The Mechanist Faction: Propagandists and Philosophers --; 10. The Mechanist Faction: Natural Scientists --; 11. Deborin and His Students --; 12. Deborinite Natural Scientists --; 13. Social Theorists in the Deborinite Faction --; 14. Closing the Controversy, 1926–1929 --; 15. ‘Classical’ Authority and the Cultural Revolution --; Part Four. The Great Break 1929–1932 --; 16. The Great Break for Natural Scientists --; 17. The Great Break for Philosophers --; Part Five. Physics and Biology in the First Phase 1917–1932 --; 18. The ‘Crisis’ in Physics --; 19. The Crisis in Biology --; 20. Conclusion --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231891035; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/jora92902
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Joravsky.

Focuses on the Soviet Marxist philosophy of natural science, as it developed in its first phase from 1917-1932. Looks at natural science to mean the systemized knowledge of nature with the exception of human nature.