{"product_id":"toward-the-scientific-defence-of-historical-materialism-basic-elements-of-the-historical-view-of-nature-cognition-from-the-historical-point-of-view-9789004745193","title":"Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism: Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View,","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Rowley | David Rowley | Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism \u0026amp; Socialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten under conditions of tsarist censorship, \u003ci\u003eBasic Elements of the Historical View of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eCognition from the Historical Point of View\u003c\/i\u003e explains the causal connections between labour, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, \u003ci\u003eThe Science of Social Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47594206593175,"sku":"9789004745193","price":21262.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004745193.webp?v=1774985101","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/toward-the-scientific-defence-of-historical-materialism-basic-elements-of-the-historical-view-of-nature-cognition-from-the-historical-point-of-view-9789004745193","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}