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Dialectical Materialism
A complete and comprehensive overview of Marxist-Leninist scientific philosophy covering all the Titans of philosophy and science in history in putting them into historical context elaborated in Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism, the highest product of man's thought.
Author: Alexander Spirkin
Soviet-Russian philosopher
Moscow
Translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish Designed by Nadezhda Illarionova
1983 English translation © Progress Publishers 1983
Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
"Alexander Spirkin was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist. He was born in Saratov Governorate and graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1959 he received his doctorate in philosophy for a dissertation on the origin of consciousness."
Summary Extracts
"This book is a consideration of the essence of Marxist- Leninist philosophy, its central propositions and problems, its historical role and significance in the complex world of today."
"Socialist society, free from exploitation of man by man, is being built in accordance with a strictly scientific social theory—Marxism-Leninism, whose philosophical basis is dialectical materialism."
Contents:
Introduction
1. Philosophy As A World-View And A Methodology
What Is Philosophy?
Philosophy as a World-View
Philosophy as Methodology
Philosophy and Science
Philosophy and Art
2. The System of Categories in Philosophical Thought
The Categories of Dialectics
Matter as the Substance of Everything That Exists
The Motion of Matter
Space and Time
The Principle of Universal Connection and Development
The Principle of Causality
System and Structure
Essence and Phenomenon
Quality and Quantity
Negation and Continuity
Contradiction and Harmony
3. Consciousness of the World and the World of Consciousness
The General Concept of Consciousness and Mental Activity
The Material and the Spiritual
Consciousness and Language
4. The Theory of Knowledge and Creativity
General Concept of Cognition
Cognition and Practice
What Is Truth?
The Sensuous Image of the World
Thought
5. On the Human Being and Being Human
What Is a Human Being?
The Human as the Biosocial
Man in the Realm of Nature
Man and Society
Man as a Personality
Man the Doer
Destiny, Freedom and Responsibility
Man and culture
Author: Alexander Spirkin
Soviet-Russian philosopher
Moscow
Translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish Designed by Nadezhda Illarionova
1983 English translation © Progress Publishers 1983
Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
"Alexander Spirkin was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist. He was born in Saratov Governorate and graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1959 he received his doctorate in philosophy for a dissertation on the origin of consciousness."
Summary Extracts
"This book is a consideration of the essence of Marxist- Leninist philosophy, its central propositions and problems, its historical role and significance in the complex world of today."
"Socialist society, free from exploitation of man by man, is being built in accordance with a strictly scientific social theory—Marxism-Leninism, whose philosophical basis is dialectical materialism."
Contents:
Introduction
1. Philosophy As A World-View And A Methodology
What Is Philosophy?
Philosophy as a World-View
Philosophy as Methodology
Philosophy and Science
Philosophy and Art
2. The System of Categories in Philosophical Thought
The Categories of Dialectics
Matter as the Substance of Everything That Exists
The Motion of Matter
Space and Time
The Principle of Universal Connection and Development
The Principle of Causality
System and Structure
Essence and Phenomenon
Quality and Quantity
Negation and Continuity
Contradiction and Harmony
3. Consciousness of the World and the World of Consciousness
The General Concept of Consciousness and Mental Activity
The Material and the Spiritual
Consciousness and Language
4. The Theory of Knowledge and Creativity
General Concept of Cognition
Cognition and Practice
What Is Truth?
The Sensuous Image of the World
Thought
5. On the Human Being and Being Human
What Is a Human Being?
The Human as the Biosocial
Man in the Realm of Nature
Man and Society
Man as a Personality
Man the Doer
Destiny, Freedom and Responsibility
Man and culture
- GenresPhilosophy
343 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1983
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May 17, 2021
A brilliant book of dialectical materialism. Although from the late revisionist Soviet Union, they are usually depending on the Author pretty good. You have to be careful. Alexander Spirkin seems to be one of these good Authors. You usually get the advantage of a deeper elaboration of dialectical materialism using the latest science. Which for this person, he knows an awful alot about the brain. Although I have some disagreements with how he phrases the consciousness question, generally he is correct and you'd have to know some pretty high level materialist theory of consciousness to be able to pick them out. And to be fair if I were to list all the positives compared to this minor negative. The positive would probably fill books of appraisal. If you want the "spiritual successor" to Anti-During, usually the late USSR books are pretty good at this.
It is very sad that these are not more widely known, deep thought out Marxist Materialist truths like consciousness is the function of the brain as highly organised matter (ie identical to it), are lost on most many modern Marxist, who are still lost in the field of Dualistic tendencies and an all to pervasive tendency to focus on the dialectic part of Dialectical Materialism. Consequently leading them to wholly negate the Materialist part, or even understand what mono-materialism or materialism is etc and revert to idealist Hegelian Dialectics. Anyway. This book does a long way of weeding out many errors in the conception of dialectical and historical materialism and is a master piece that everyone should read.
It is very sad that these are not more widely known, deep thought out Marxist Materialist truths like consciousness is the function of the brain as highly organised matter (ie identical to it), are lost on most many modern Marxist, who are still lost in the field of Dualistic tendencies and an all to pervasive tendency to focus on the dialectic part of Dialectical Materialism. Consequently leading them to wholly negate the Materialist part, or even understand what mono-materialism or materialism is etc and revert to idealist Hegelian Dialectics. Anyway. This book does a long way of weeding out many errors in the conception of dialectical and historical materialism and is a master piece that everyone should read.
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