Aleksandr Bogdanov's Philosophy of Living Experience
by K.M. Jensen.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1978
(208 pages).
Sovietica, Publications and Monographs of the Institute of East-European Studies at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland and the Center for East Europe, Russia and Asia at Boston College and the Seminar for Political Theory and Philosophy at the University of Munich, 41.
A. Aleksandr Bogdanov --;B. Toward a New Approach to Bogdanov and the Russian Machists --;C. Studying Bogdanov --;D. The Philosophy of Living Experience --;I. The Contemporary Problem of Philosophy and Philosophy's Career --;A. Philosophy and Life --;B. The Rise and Development of Worldviews --;C. 'What is Materialism?' --;D. Ancient and Modern Materialisms --;II. Empiriocriticism --;A. Empiriocriticism Depicted --;B. Empiriocriticism Criticized --;C. The Social Roots of Empiriocriticism --;III. Dialectical Materialism --;A. Bogdanov's Dialectic --;B. Dialectics Prior to Marx and the Meaning of the Idealist Dialectic --;C. The Materialist Dialectic and Marx's Truly Active Worldview --;D. Joseph Dietzgen and the Russian Dialectical Materialists --;E. The Real Dialectic and the Task of Philosophy --;IV. Empiriomonism --;A. 'Labor Causality' --;B. The Elements of Experience --;C. Objectivity --;D. Sociomorphism --;E. Substitution --;F. The 'Empiriomonistic' Worldpicture --;V. The Science of the Future --;Conclusion --;Notes.
In the process of an experiment on blood transfusion, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Malinovsky, better known as Bogdanov, had exchanged his blood with that of a critically ill malaria victim in hopes of saving both the patient and his blood.