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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 Translation The Game of Contradictions Foreword Introduction Part One 1 Back to Hegel 2 The Rational Method 3 Engels on Marx and Hegel 4 The Encounter with the Natural Sciences Part Two 5 The Return of the Systems 6 Conservation of Energy, and Systems 7 Darwinism: Hypothesis or Worldview? 8 The Human Sciences 9 Facts and Laws about Humanity 10 Texts, Structures and Systems Part Three 11 Engels’s Four Periods 12 The Literary Sources 13 The Direct Inspirations 14 Theory and Empiricism: The Three Tendencies 15 Inorganic Nature 16 Biology and Human Science Part Four 17 Ideology and Science 18 The Debates on Darwinism and Socialism 19 Engels and Ideology Sources and Literature Index of Subjects
