توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب :
اثر حاضر حاصل دورهای از سخنرانیهایی است که نویسنده در تابستان 1945 در مؤسسه شرقی پاپ در رم ایراد کرد، که در آن، به عنوان بخشی از یک بررسی کلی تر از تاریخ فلسفه روسیه، او همچنین مجبور شد به مارکسیسم روسی قبل از انقلاب و ماتریالیسم دیالکتیکی شوروی می پردازد. از این سخنرانیها اولین نسخه این کتاب بیرون آمد که در اواخر سال 1947 به زبان ایتالیایی منتشر شد. پس از آن در سال 1952 یک نسخه آلمانی بازنگری بسیار گستردهای که باید به شکل بدون تغییر در سالهای 1953 و 1956 دوباره منتشر میشد. ترجمه انگلیسی حاضر بر اساس متن چاپ چهارم آلمانی است که اکنون در مطبوعات منتشر شده است که مجدداً به طور کامل اصلاح شده و با مطالب جدید تکمیل شده است.
بنای اعتقادی فلسفه شوروی به دو بخش تقسیم می شود: ماتریالیسم دیالکتیکی و تاریخی. نویسنده در اینجا مجبور است خود را به اولین مورد، یعنی ماتریالیسم دیالکتیکی، از جمله فلسفه علم، محدود کند. در واقع به بخش درست فلسفی، همانطور که اصطلاح "فلسفه" در غرب درک می شود. ماتریالیسم تاریخی، که در کاربرد شوروی شامل نظریه جامعه میشود، نمیتوان آن را به این شکل بررسی کرد. مسائل اخلاق، زیباییشناسی و فلسفههای تاریخ و حقوق نیز تحت طرح امور شوروی به حوزه ماتریالیسم تاریخی اختصاص دارد. یقیناً میتوانست تا حدی دامنهی گزارش را بسط دهیم و این موضوعات را نیز در اختیار خودمان قرار دهیم، زیرا در کاربرد غربی، در همه حال، بیتردید در میان رشتههای فلسفی بهخوبی اصطلاحاً به آن میگویند. دلیل انجام نشدن این امر این است که نویسنده در ابتدا امیدوار بود که بتواند بعداً جلد ماتریالیسم دیالکتیکی را با جلد دوم ماتریالیسم تاریخی دنبال کند و چون کمبود زمان و مکان او را به این خود واداشته است. محدودیت اعمال کرد.
فهرست مطالب :
Preface ix
Translator's Note xii
PART ONE. Historical
I The Philosophical Roots of Marxism 3
1 HEGEL 4
2 THE ‘HEGELIAN LEFT’ 7
3 LUDWIG FEUERBACH 10
4 MARXISM AND POSITIVISM 15
II Karl Marx and Friedrich Fngels 17
1 KARL MARX 17
2 FRIEDRICH ENGELS 41
III Revolutionary Movements in Russia: The Origins of Russian Marxism 58
1 ORIGINS: RUSSIAN NIHILISM 59
2 NARODNICHESTVO 62
3 RUSSIAN MARXISM 68
IV Philosophical Tendencies in Russian Marxism before the Revolution 73
1 THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN MARXISM AND NARODNICHESTVO 73
2 CRITICISM IN RUSSIAN MARXISM 83
3 THE ‘GOD-SEEKERS’ AND THE ‘GOD-BUILDERS’ 90
4 BOGDANOV’S EMPIRIO-MONISM 92
5 PLEKHANOV 100
V Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 110
1 LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL ACTIVITY 111
2 LENINISM 126
VI Philosophical Development in the U.S.S.R. up lo 1931 128
VII Mechanism 137
1 GENERAL CHARACTER OF MECHANISM 138
2 BUKHARIN 143
3 AXEL’ROD (ORTODOX) 149
VIII Menshevik Idealism 154
1 GENERAL OUTLINES 155
2 DEBORIN 159
3 TROTSKY 166
IX Development since 1931 175
1 CONSEQUENCES OF THE DECREE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF 25TH JANUARY 1931 175
2 THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 181
3 THE ‘PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION’ OF 1947 AND ITS AFTERMATH 183
4 FROM THE ‘PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION’ TO THE DEATH OF STALIN 189
X Stalin as a Philosopher 209
XI Since the Death of Stalin 231
PART TWO. The System of Soviet Philosophy
I Conception of Philosophy 249
1 PHILOSOPHY AND THE SPECIAL SCIENCES 249
2 INDIVIDUAL PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINES 254
3 THE UNITY OF THEORY AND PRACTICE 256
4 THE PARTISAN CHARACTER OF PHILOSOPHY 268
5 THE PHILOSOPHICAL ‘ATMOSPHERE’ IN THE U.S.S.R. 274
II The Theory of Matter 280
1 MATERIALISM OR REALISM? 281
2 THE LENINIST CONCEPT OF MATTER 286
3 MATTER AND MOTION 296
4 SPACE AND TIME 304
III The Materialist Dialectic 310
1 STALIN’S ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST TWO ‘PRINCIPAL FEATURES’ OF THE MARXIST DIALECTICAL METHOD 312
2 THE LAW OF THE TRANSITION FROM QUANTITY TO QUALITY 319
3 THE LAW OF THE UNITY AND STRUGGLE OF OPPOSITES 333
4 THE LAW OF THE NEGATION OF THE NEGATION 355
IV The Theory of Categories 366
1 APPEARANCE, ESSENCE AND LAW 371
2 CAUSALITY AND FINALITY 375
3 NECESSITY AND CONTINGENCY. THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM 381
4 POSSIBILITY AND ACTUALITY 396
5 FORM AND CONTENT 402
V Dialeclical Materialism and Modern Science 405
1 QUANTUM PHYSICS 406
2 RELATIVITY THEORY 416
3 MASS AND ENERGY 424
4 CHEMISTRY 432
5 COSMOGONY 436
6 THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 442
7 THE ‘NEW CELL-THEORY’ OF O. B. LEPESHINSKAYA 451
8 THE ‘NEW THEORY OF INHERITANCE’. I. V. MICHURIN, T. D. LYSENKO 455
9 ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. I. P. PAVLOV 469
VI The Dialectical Materialist Theory of Knowledge 488
1 THE PRIORITY OF MATTER OVER CONSCIOUSNESS 490
2 THE ‘COPY-THEORY’ 498
3 PRACTICE AS THE FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND CRITERION OF TRUTH 507
4 OBJECTIVE, RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE TRUTH 512
VII Logic 518
1 THE MATERIALIST DIALECTIC AS LOGIC AND AS THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE 518
2 THE CONTROVERSY OVER FORMAL LOGIC 523
3 INDIVIDUAL LOGICAL OPERATIONS 535
Conclusion 548
Bibliography 562
Index of Names 595
Index of Subjects 602
توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب به زبان اصلی :
The present work is the outcome of a course of lectures originally delivered by the author in the summer of 1945 at the Papal Oriental Institute in Rome, in which, as part of a more general survey of the history of Russian philosophy, he also had to deal with pre-revolutionary Russian Marxism, and with Soviet dialectical materialism. From these lectures there sprang the first version of this book, which was published in Italian late in 1947. It was followed in l952 by a very extensively revised German edition, which had to be reissued, in unaltered form, in 1953 and 1956. The present English translation is based on the text of the fourth German edition, now in the press, which has again been very thoroughly revised and supplemented with new material.
The doctrinal edifice of Soviet philosophy is divided into two parts: dialectical and historical materialism. The author has here had to confine himself to the first of these, namely, dialectical materialism, including the philosophy of science; in effect to the properly philosophical portion, as the term ‘philosophy’ is understood in the West. Historical materialism, which in Soviet usage includes the theory of society, could not be dealt with as such. The problems of ethics, aesthetics and the philosophies of history and law arc also assigned, under the Soviet scheme of things, to the field of historical materialism. There would certainly have been some justification for enlarging the scope of the account to some extent and bringing these subjects also within our purview, since in Western usage, at all events, they undoubtedly rank among the philosophical disciplines properly so called. The reason why this has not been done is that the author originally hoped later on to be able to follow up the volume on dialectical materialism with a second one on historical materialism, and because lack of both time and space have compelled him to this self-imposed restriction.