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Haymarket Books The Game of Contradictions: the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisWhat is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels's attempt to formulate a general philosophy and worldview? These are the questions highlighted in this magnificent work that situates Marx and Engels’s writing against the background of the entire nineteenth-century world of scientific problems, from physics to historiography.One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman's work is here presented in English translation and with a new preface by the author.Table of ContentsPreface to the English TranslationThe Game of ContradictionsForewordIntroductionPart One1 Back to Hegel2 The Rational Method3 Engels on Marx and Hegel4 The Encounter with the Natural SciencesPart Two5 The Return of the Systems6 Conservation of Energy, and Systems7 Darwinism: Hypothesis or Worldview?8 The Human Sciences9 Facts and Laws about Humanity10 Texts, Structures and SystemsPart Three11 Engels’s Four Periods12 The Literary Sources13 The Direct Inspirations14 Theory and Empiricism: The Three Tendencies15 Inorganic Nature16 Biology and Human SciencePart Four17 Ideology and Science18 The Debates on Darwinism and Socialism19 Engels and IdeologySources and LiteratureIndex of Subjects
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Experiment Facing Infinity
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Columbia Global Reports Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
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