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The Philosophy of Living Experience

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This is the best introduction to the thought of Bogdanov, a Russian polymath who was a co-founder of the Bolshevik-Party.
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The Philosophy of Living Experience is the single best introduction to the thought of Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), a Russian polymath who was co-founder, with Lenin, of the Bolshevik Party. His landmark achievements are Empiriomonism (1904–6), a philosophy of radical empiricism that he developed to replace what he considered to be the crude materialism of contemporary Marxists, and Tektology: Universal Organisational Science (1912–17), a precursor of cybernetics and systems theory.

The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between the two; it is a final summing up of empiriomonism, an illustration of his theory of the social genesis of ideas, and an anticipation of Tektology.
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Price: $30.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date: 10 October 2017
Trim Size: 11.00 X 9.00 in
ISBN: 9781608467013
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / Social, Social and political philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / System Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Philosophy of mind, Cybernetics and systems theory, Political ideologies and movements
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Alexander Bogdanov was a leading member of the Bolshevik Party.

David G. Rowley, Ph.D. (1982), University of Michigan, is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. His publications include Millenarian Bolshevism (Garland, 1986) and "Bogdanov and Lenin: Epistemology and Revolution" in Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 48:1:19
Editor’s Introduction

Introduction
A. What is philosophy? Who needs it and why?
B. What came before philosophy?
C. How did philosophy and science become distinguished from religion?

Chapter I. What is Materialism?

Chapter II. Materialism of the Ancient World

Chapter III. Modern Materialism

Chapter IV. Empiriocriticism

Chapter V. Dialectical Materialism

Chapter VI. Empiriomonism
A. Labour causality
B. Elements of experience
C. Objectivity
D. Sociomorphism
E. Substitution
F. The picture of the world

Conclusion: The Science of the Future

Appendix: From Religious to Scientific Monism

Bibliography

Index