Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism : Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness /
Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature appears to be a dispassionate account of nature, life, the psyche, and society, based on the most up-to-date science, but, in fact, it has a Marxist goal: to defend the idea of historical materialism. Aft...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2026.
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Historical Materialism Book Series ;
360/1.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature
- 2 Cognition from the Historical Point of View
- 3 The Science of Social Consciousness
- Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature: Nature, Life, Psyche, Society
- Introduction
- 1 What Is Meant by Truth, and Why Is It Necessary?
- 2 Concept and Word
- 3 Relative Truth
- 1 Nature
- 1 Stasis and Motion
- 2 The Form of Motions
- 3 Newton's Laws of Motion
- 4 Inertia: The First Stage of the Cognition of Causality
- 5 The Law of Specific Action: The Second Stage of the Cognition of Causality
- 6 The Law of Energy: The Third Stage in the Cognition of Causality
- 7 The Fate of the Law of Causality
- 8 On the 'Unchanging Essence of Things'
- 9 The Conservatism of Forms of Motion
- 10 The Dynamic Equilibrium of Forms of Motion
- 11 Forms in the Process of Change
- 12 Crises of Forms of Motion
- 13 The Appearance and the Destruction of Forms
- 2 Life
- 1 Motion and Life
- 2 Forms of Life
- 3 Universal Causality and Processes of Life
- 4 General Historical Propositions in the Realm of the Phenomena of Life: Conservatism, Formulae of Ongoing Changes, Crises
- 5 Reproduction of Forms of Life
- 6 Heredity
- 7 The Number of Forms That Spring Up and the Number That Are Preserved: Regarding the Boundaries of Life
- 8 The Law of Selection
- 9 Development
- 10 Reinforced Use
- 11 The Continuity of Development
- 12 Adaptation for Development
- 3 The Psyche
- 1 Nature and the Psyche
- 2 Psychical Forms
- 3 The Application of the General Principles of Causality to Psychical Forms
- 4 Psychical Forms as Forms of Adaptation
- 5 Psychical Forms as Distinctive Forms
- 4 Society
- 1 The Realm of Biology and the Realm of Sociology
- 2 Social Forms
- 3 Social Forms and General Formulae of Causality
- 4 Social Forms and Biological Causality (the Law of Selection)
- 5 The Continuity of Development of Social Forms
- 6 Technological Forms of the Social Process
- 7 Forms of Social Production
- 8 Forms of Distribution
- 9 Law and Morality (the Realm of Normative Forms)
- 10 Universal Ideological Forms - Cognitive Forms
- 11 Social Change
- Conclusion
- 1 Can the Historical View Be Considered Unconditionally True?
- 2 Quality and Quantity
- 3 What Is Philosophy?
- 4 The Fate of the Historical Worldview
- Appendix 1: On the Elements of Consciousness
- 1 The Basic Types of Facts of Consciousness
- 2 Feeling from the Energetical Point of View
- 3 Mental Images and Will from an Energetical Point of View
- 4 The Genesis of the Elements of Consciousness
- 5 Regarding the Emotions
- 6 Consciousness and the Unconscious
- 7 Consciousness and Memory
- 8 Psychical Selection
- 9 Stimulus and Sensation
- Appendix 2: Supplement to Part 1, Chapter 7
- Cognition from the Historical Point of View
- From the Author
- 1 On Universal Method
- 1 Point of View
- 2 The Energetical Method and Critical Monism
- 3 The Energetical Method and Avenarius's Biomechanics
- 4 The Order of Investigation
- 2 Cognition as Adaptation
- 1 Psychical Reactions
- 2 Forms of Consciousness
- 4 Sociality
- 5 Expressive Reactions
- 6 Forms of Cognition
- 7 How Forms of Cognition are Worked Out
- 3 On the Method of the Historical Theory of Cognition
- 1 The Place of the Historical Theory of Cognition in the General Series of Sciences
- 2 Deduction in the Various Sciences
- 3 The Abstract Method in the Social Sciences
- 4 The Abstract Method in the Historical Theory of Cognition
- 5 The Materialist Aspect of the Abstract Method of the Theory of Cognition
- 6 Extra-Cognitive Bases of Cognition
- 7 Forms of Collaboration and the Monist Tendency
- 8 The Further Course of Investigation
- 9 General Types of Forms of Collaboration and Forms of Thinking
- 10 Types of Labour and Types of Thinking
- 11 On the Boundaries of Eclecticism
- 12 On the 'Presuppositions' of Cognition
- Science of Social Consciousness (A Short Course of Ideological Science in Questions and Answers)
- Prefaces
- 1 Preface to the First Edition
- 2 Preface to the Second Edition
- 3 Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction
- 1 The Definition of Ideological Science
- 2 The Methods of Ideological Science
- 1 The Period of Primitive Ideologies
- 1 The Beginning of Ideologies
- 2 The Development of Ideology after the Primeval Era
- 2 The Period of Authoritarian Ideology
- 1 The Era of the Patriarchal Way of Life
- 2 The Era of the Feudal Way of Life
- 3 The Period of Individualistic Ideologies
- 1 The Ideal Form of Individualistic Society
- 2 Transitional Forms: The Slave-Owning System of the Classical World
- 3 Transitional Forms: (1) The serf system, (2) The Artisan-Guild System, (3) Merchant Capitalism
- 4 Industrial Capitalism
- 4 The Ideologies of Collectivism
- 1 The Technological and Economic Bases of Collectivism
- 2 General Features of the Ideologies of Collectivism
- 3 Labour Causality
- 4 Tendencies of Development of Science
- 5 Tendencies in the Development of Art
- 6 Social Norms
- 7 The Crisis of Proletarian Ideology in the World War
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.