Soviet Marxism and Natural Science 1917–1932 / / 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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1961] ©1961 |
| Year of Publication: | 1961 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
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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