Historical Materialism Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism: Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from, (Paperback)

<p><strong>Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, <em>Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature</em> offers a powerful defense of historical materialism. <br> <br> </strong>At first, the book 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 labor determine the forms of human ideology. <em>Cognition from the Historical Point of View</em> explains the causal connections between labor, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, <em>The Science of Social Consciousness</em>, written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.</p>

• Historical Materialism Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism: Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from, (Paperback)
• Author: Alexander Bogdanov
• ISBN: 9798888909089
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-11-17
• Page Count: 700