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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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