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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bogdanov, Alexander Aleksandrovich,
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Title Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism :
Remainder of title Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, David G. Rowley.
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Title proper/short title Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
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Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2026.
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Series statement Historical Materialism Book Series ;
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Series statement Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Title Introduction -- 1 Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature -- 2 Cognition from the Historical Point of View -- 3 The Science of Social Consciousness -- Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature: Nature, Life, Psyche, Society -- Introduction -- 1 What Is Meant by Truth, and Why Is It Necessary? -- 2 Concept and Word -- 3 Relative Truth -- 1 Nature -- 1 Stasis and Motion -- 2 The Form of Motions -- 3 Newton’s Laws of Motion -- 4 Inertia: The First Stage of the Cognition of Causality -- 5 The Law of Specific Action: The Second Stage of the Cognition of Causality -- 6 The Law of Energy: The Third Stage in the Cognition of Causality -- 7 The Fate of the Law of Causality -- 8 On the ‘Unchanging Essence of Things’ -- 9 The Conservatism of Forms of Motion -- 10 The Dynamic Equilibrium of Forms of Motion -- 11 Forms in the Process of Change -- 12 Crises of Forms of Motion -- 13 The Appearance and the Destruction of Forms -- 2 Life -- 1 Motion and Life -- 2 Forms of Life -- 3 Universal Causality and Processes of Life -- 4 General Historical Propositions in the Realm of the Phenomena of Life: Conservatism, Formulae of Ongoing Changes, Crises -- 5 Reproduction of Forms of Life -- 6 Heredity -- 7 The Number of Forms That Spring Up and the Number That Are Preserved: Regarding the Boundaries of Life -- 8 The Law of Selection -- 9 Development -- 10 Reinforced Use -- 11 The Continuity of Development -- 12 Adaptation for Development -- 3 The Psyche -- 1 Nature and the Psyche -- 2 Psychical Forms -- 3 The Application of the General Principles of Causality to Psychical Forms -- 4 Psychical Forms as Forms of Adaptation -- 5 Psychical Forms as Distinctive Forms -- 4 Society -- 1 The Realm of Biology and the Realm of Sociology -- 2 Social Forms -- 3 Social Forms and General Formulae of Causality -- 4 Social Forms and Biological Causality (the Law of Selection) -- 5 The Continuity of Development of Social Forms -- 6 Technological Forms of the Social Process -- 7 Forms of Social Production -- 8 Forms of Distribution -- 9 Law and Morality (the Realm of Normative Forms) -- 10 Universal Ideological Forms – Cognitive Forms -- 11 Social Change -- Conclusion -- 1 Can the Historical View Be Considered Unconditionally True? -- 2 Quality and Quantity -- 3 What Is Philosophy? -- 4 The Fate of the Historical Worldview -- Appendix 1: On the Elements of Consciousness -- 1 The Basic Types of Facts of Consciousness -- 2 Feeling from the Energetical Point of View -- 3 Mental Images and Will from an Energetical Point of View -- 4 The Genesis of the Elements of Consciousness -- 5 Regarding the Emotions -- 6 Consciousness and the Unconscious -- 7 Consciousness and Memory -- 8 Psychical Selection -- 9 Stimulus and Sensation -- Appendix 2: Supplement to Part 1, Chapter 7 -- Cognition from the Historical Point of View -- From the Author -- 1 On Universal Method -- 1 Point of View -- 2 The Energetical Method and Critical Monism -- 3 The Energetical Method and Avenarius’s Biomechanics -- 4 The Order of Investigation -- 2 Cognition as Adaptation -- 1 Psychical Reactions -- 2 Forms of Consciousness -- 4 Sociality -- 5 Expressive Reactions -- 6 Forms of Cognition -- 7 How Forms of Cognition are Worked Out -- 3 On the Method of the Historical Theory of Cognition -- 1 The Place of the Historical Theory of Cognition in the General Series of Sciences -- 2 Deduction in the Various Sciences -- 3 The Abstract Method in the Social Sciences -- 4 The Abstract Method in the Historical Theory of Cognition -- 5 The Materialist Aspect of the Abstract Method of the Theory of Cognition -- 6 Extra-Cognitive Bases of Cognition -- 7 Forms of Collaboration and the Monist Tendency -- 8 The Further Course of Investigation -- 9 General Types of Forms of Collaboration and Forms of Thinking -- 10 Types of Labour and Types of Thinking -- 11 On the Boundaries of Eclecticism -- 12 On the ‘Presuppositions’ of Cognition -- Science of Social Consciousness (A Short Course of Ideological Science in Questions and Answers) -- Prefaces -- 1 Preface to the First Edition -- 2 Preface to the Second Edition -- 3 Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- 1 The Definition of Ideological Science -- 2 The Methods of Ideological Science -- 1 The Period of Primitive Ideologies -- 1 The Beginning of Ideologies -- 2 The Development of Ideology after the Primeval Era -- 2 The Period of Authoritarian Ideology -- 1 The Era of the Patriarchal Way of Life -- 2 The Era of the Feudal Way of Life -- 3 The Period of Individualistic Ideologies -- 1 The Ideal Form of Individualistic Society -- 2 Transitional Forms: The Slave-Owning System of the Classical World -- 3 Transitional Forms: (1) The serf system, (2) The Artisan-Guild System, (3) Merchant Capitalism -- 4 Industrial Capitalism -- 4 The Ideologies of Collectivism -- 1 The Technological and Economic Bases of Collectivism -- 2 General Features of the Ideologies of Collectivism -- 3 Labour Causality -- 4 Tendencies of Development of Science -- 5 Tendencies in the Development of Art -- 6 Social Norms -- 7 The Crisis of Proletarian Ideology in the World War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Summary, etc. Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature appears to be a dispassionate account of nature, life, the psyche, and society, based on the most up-to-date science, but, in fact, it has a Marxist goal: to defend the idea of historical materialism. After developing a thoroughly materialist, determinist view of reality, Bogdanov explains how forms of social labour determine the forms of human ideology. Cognition from the Historical Point of View explains the causal connections between labour, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, The Science of Social Consciousness , written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element 19th & 20th Century Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Critical Social Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social & Political Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociology & Anthropology.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rowley, David G.,
Relator term author.
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Relationship information Print version:
Title Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism : Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
International Standard Book Number 9789004745193
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Uniform title Historical Materialism Book Series ;
Volume/sequential designation 360/1.
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Uniform title Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004745209">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004745209</a>

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