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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453971503321

Autore

Woods Ted

Titolo

Reason in Revolt [[electronic resource] ] : Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrantAlan

Disciplina

335.4/112

Soggetti

Communism and science

Dialectical materialism

Philosophy

Science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; to the second volume of the American edition; Part Three: Life, Mind and Matter; 10. The Dialectics of Geology; 11. How Life Arose; 12. The Revolutionary Birth of Man; 13. The Genesis of Mind; 14. Marxism and Darwinism; 15. The Selfish Gene?; NOTES PART THREE; Part Four: Order Out of Chaos; 16. Does Mathematics Reflect Reality?; 17. Chaos Theory; 18. The Theory of Knowledge; 19. Alienation and the Future of Humanity; NOTES PART FOUR; Bibliography; Glossary of Terms

Sommario/riassunto

Two of Britain's deans of socialist thought consider the philosophical writings of Marx and Engels in the light of recent advances in the sciences. The authors have written a dozen books; this work is a hit in ten countries.The book reasserts the dialecti