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Marx, Engels and the Philosophy of Science book cover

1st Edition

Marx, Engels and the Philosophy of Science

By David Bedford, Thomas Workman Copyright 2023
230 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx’s thought. Drawing on a reading of dialectics found in Plato and Hegel, it recasts Marx’s implicit ontology in terms of dialectical conceptions of the world, as these conceptions have responded to the... Read more

Introduction: historical materialism and the lingering war on science

1: Dialectics and materialist science

2: The dialectic of subject and object

3: Ontology, relations, and fetishism

4: The materialist matrix of classical Marxian science

5: The external and internal relationship of theory and reality

6: The logical character of Marx’s scientific achievements

Biography

David Bedford is Retired Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and the co-author of The Tragedy of Progress: Marxism, Modernity and the Aboriginal Question.

Thomas Workman is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and the co-author of The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada and the author of If You’re In My Way I’m Walking: The Assault on Working People Since 1970.

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