Nikolai Bukharin ; translated by Renfrey Clarke ; with editorial assistance by George Shriver
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
407 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-394) and index
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The reality of the world and the intrigues of solipsism -- Acceptance and nonacceptance of the world -- Things in themselves and their cognizability -- Space and time -- Mediated knowledge -- The abstract and the concrete -- Perception, image, concept -- Living nature and the artistic attitude toward it -- Rational thought, dialectical thought, and direct contemplation -- Practice in general and the place of practice in the theory of knowledge -- Practical, theoretical and aesthetic attitudes toward the world, and their unity -- The fundamental positions of materialism and idealism -- Hylozoism and panpsychism -- Hindu mysticism and western European philosophy -- The so-called philosophy of identity -- The sins of mechanistic materialism -- The general laws and relations of being -- Teleology -- Freedom and necessity -- The organism -- Modern science and dialectical materialism -- The sociology of thought: labor and thought as social-historical categories -- The sociology of thought: mode of production and mode of representation -- On so-called racial thought -- Social position, thought, and "experience" -- The object of philosophy -- The subject of philosophy -- The interaction of subject and object -- Society as the object and subject of mastering -- Truth: the concept of truth and the criterion of the truthful -- Truth: absolute and relative truth -- The good -- Hegel's dialectical idealism as a system -- The dialectics of Hegel and the dialectics of Marx -- Dialectics as science and dialectics as art -- Science and philosophy -- Evolution -- Theory and history -- The social ideal -- Lenin as a philosopher