Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Introduction / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- What is Materialism? / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Materialism of the Ancient World / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Modern Materialism / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Empiriocriticism / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Dialectical Materialism / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Empiriomonism / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- The Science of the Future / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- From Religious to Scientific Monism / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Bibliography / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley -- Name Index / Alexander Bogdanov and David G. Rowley.

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The Philosophy of Living Experience is the single best introduction to the thought of Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), a Russian polymath who was co-founder, with Lenin, of the Bolshevik Party. His landmark achievements are Empiriomonism (1904–6), a philosophy of radical empiricism that he developed to replace what he considered to be the crude materialism of contemporary Marxists, and Tektology: Universal Organisational Science (1912–17), a precursor of cybernetics and systems theory. The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between the two; it is a final summing up of empiriomonism, an illustration of his theory of the social genesis of ideas, and an anticipation of Tektology.