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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799497603321

Autore

Chehonadskih Maria

Titolo

Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution / / by Maria Chehonadskih

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031402395

3031402391

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

355.411

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

Marxian economics

Epistemology

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Marxist Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Strategic Unity of Marxism and Empiricism -- 3. The Science of Organisation -- 4. Proletarian Monism -- 5. Structures Take to the Streets -- 6. The Encyclopaedia of Poor Life in Platonov’s Proletarian Literature. .

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power. The book traces the adventure of the synthesis of empiricism and Marxism across philosophy, science, politics, art and literature from the 1890s to the



1930s, offering a radical rethinking of the true scope and scale that the main proponent of Empirio-Marxism, Alexander Bogdanov, had on the post-revolutionary socialist legacies. Chehonadskih draws on both key and forgotten figures and movements, such as Proletkult, Productivism and Constructivism, filling a gap in the literature that will be particularly significant for Marxism, continental philosophy, art theory and Slavic studies specialists.