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The nature of human brain work : an introduction to dialectics / Joseph Dietzgen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dietzgen, Joseph, 1828-1888.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dialectical materialism.
- Thought and thinking.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, Calif. : PM, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This primer on dialectical materialism is the first and best-known work of a pioneer of socialist philosophy. Joseph Dietzgen, a tanner by trade, was self-taught and developed his theory of dialectical materialism independently of Karl Marx. In this book he argues that thinking is a process involving two opposing aspectsgeneralization and specializationand all thought is therefore a dialectical process. Knowledge is limited, truth is relative, and the only absolute is existence itself. This cornerstone of socialist philosophy lays the foundation for a nondogmatic, flexible, nonsectarian yet principled socialist politics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- I Introduction
- II Pure Reason or the Faculty of Thought in General
- III The Nature of Things
- IV The Practice of Reason in Physical Science
- (a) Cause and Effect
- (b) Matter and Mind
- (c) Force and Matter
- V "Practical Reason" or Morality
- (a) The Wise and Reasonable
- (b) Morality and Right
- (c) The Holy
- A Dietzgen Biography
- Cosmic Dialectics The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph Dietzgen by Larry Gambone
- Thinking About Thinking
- Contradiction Inherent in Thought
- The Limitations of Our Knowledge
- The Importance of Error
- Thought Must Have an Object
- Idealism vs. Materialism
- Dietzgen's Critique of Bourgeois Materialism
- The Essential Unity of the World
- Cause and Eff ect
- The Problem of Language
- Science vs. Scientism
- Dietzgen's Individualism
- Dietzgen's Concept of History
- Dietzgen and the Spiritual
- Dietzgen's Politics
- Economics
- A Dietzgen Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-60486-381-1
- OCLC:
- 732955751
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