Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov

508 Pages·2018·4.56 MB·English

by  James D. White

RedHamlet
Historical Materialism
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Red Hamlet
TheLifeandIdeasof AlexanderBogdanov
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Contents
Preface xi
1 Tula 1
1 EarlyLife 1
2 Radicalisation 4
3 BackinTula 10
4 TheShortCourseofEconomicScience 17
5 TheBasicElementsoftheHistoricalViewofNature 20
6 TheSecondEditionoftheShortCourse 22
7 Agitation 28
8 Kharkov 30
2 Kaluga 33
1 Lunacharsky 33
2 Mach 40
3 Avenarius 43
4 AvenariusandMach 51
3 Vologda 56
1 TheExiles 56
2 Berdyaev 60
3 TheDebates 64
4 WhatisIdealism? 66
5 PerceptionfromtheHistoricalPointofView 67
6 ProblemsofIdealismandStudiesintheRealistWorldView 76
7 ExternalRelations 82
4 TheAlliance 88
1 Pravda 88
2 MeetingwithLenin 99
3 OurMisunderstandings 103
4 TheAlliance 108
5 Pamphlets 112
6 InStPetersburg 115
viii contents
5 The1905Revolution 117
1 After9January 117
2 NovaiaZhizn 140
3 RevolutionandPhilosophy 143
6 Empiriomonism 145
1 Empiriocriticism 145
2 TheMeaningofObjectivity 146
3 UniversalValidity 147
4 Socially-OrganisedExperienceandIndividually-Organised
Experience 148
5 Parallelism 150
6 LifeandthePsyche 151
7 TheFirstVolumeofEmpiriomonism 153
8 Akselrod-Ortodoks’sCriticism 153
9 TheSecondVolumeofEmpiriomonism 158
10 Plekhanov’s‘Thing-in-Itself’ 160
11 TheFourthCongress 163
12 TheThirdVolumeofEmpiriomonismandtheConflictwith
Plekhanov 167
7 YearsofReaction 175
1 TheFifthCongress 175
2 TheKotkaConference 179
3 ReligionandSocialism 184
4 TheOpenLettertoPlekhanov 188
5 MaterialismusMilitans 189
6 AdventuresofOnePhilosophicalSchool 193
7 StudiesinthePhilosophyofMarxism 195
8 SocialistSociety 198
9 RedStar 200
8 EndofanAlliance 210
1 TenQuestions 210
2 TheParisConference 219
3 God-Building 223
4 TheExtendedEditorialBoardofProletarii 227
5 MaterialismandEmpiriocriticism 237
6 TheFalloftheGreatFetish 241
contents ix
9 Vpered 248
1 PartySchools 248
2 TheTranslationofMarx’sDasKapital 254
3 ThePlatformofVpered 257
4 TheTenthPlenumoftheCentralCommittee 261
5 TheBolognaPartySchool 264
6 Longjumeau 268
7 CulturalTasksofOurTimes 269
8 TheCourseofPoliticalEconomy 277
9 EngineerMenni 279
10 TheFateofVpered 281
11 PravdaArticles 283
10 Tectology 287
1 TheSecretofScience 287
2 TectologyasScience 290
3 OrganisingMethods 292
4 RegulativeMechanisms 295
5 TheStabilityofForms 297
6 DivergenceandConvergenceofForms 300
7 CrisesCandD 308
8 TectologyandGeneralSystemTheory 311
11 ThePhilosophyofLivingExperience 319
1 PhilosophyinTectologicalPerspective 319
2 TheMaterialismofModernTimes 323
3 Empiriomonism 330
4 TheScienceoftheFuture 332
5 ADecadeofExcommunicationfromMarxism 334
6 ReactiontotheWar 338
12 WarandRevolution 340
1 BogdanovintheWar 340
2 TheScienceofSocialConsciousness 342
3 WorldCrisesPeacefulandMilitary 346
4 DisagreementwithSkvortsov-Stepanov 348
5 Bukharin 352
6 WillItBeTomorrow? 353
7 TheFebruaryRevolution 355
8 Bogdanovin1917 356