{"product_id":"the-game-of-contradictions-the-philosophy-of-friedrich-engels-and-nineteenth-century-science-9789004528789","title":"The Game of Contradictions: The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210857832791,"sku":"9789004528789","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-game-of-contradictions-the-philosophy-of-friedrich-engels-and-nineteenth-century-science-9789004528789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}