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C O N T E N T S


[Part I]
 

TEN QUESTIONS TO A LECTURER
 

1
 

MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM
  Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy


3

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

5

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

8

In Lieu of Introduction
HOW CERTAIN "MARXISTS" IN 1908 AND CERTAIN IDEALISTS
  IN 1710 REFUTED MATERIALISM


 
9

Chapter One
THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM AND OF
  DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. I


 
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Sensations and Complexes of Sensations
"The Discovery of the World-Elements"
The Principal Co-ordination and "Naive Realism"
Did Nature Exist Prior to Man?
Does Man Think with the Help of the Brain?
The Solipsism of Mach and Avenarius

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Chapter Two
THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM AND OF
  DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM. II


 
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6.
 

The "Thing-in-Itself," or V. Chernov Refutes Frederick Engels
"Transcendence," or Bazarov "Revises" Engels"
L. Feuerbach and J. Dietzgen on the Thing-in-Itself
Does Objective Truth Exist?
Absolute and Relative Truth, or the Eclecticism of Engels as Discovered by A Bogdanov
The Criterion of Practice in the Theory of Knowledge
 


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   [Part II]
 

Chapter Three
THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
 AND OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM. III


 
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What Is Matter? What Is Experience?
Plekhanov's Error Concerning the Concept "Experience"
Causality and Necessity in Nature
The "Principle of Economy of Thought" and the Problem of the "Unity of the World"
Space and Time
Freedom and Necessity

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Chapter Four
THE PHILOSOHPHICAL IDEALISTS AS COMRADES-IN-ARMS
 AND SUCCESSORS OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM


 
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The Criticism of Kantianism from the Left and from the Right
How the "Empirio-Symbolist" Yushkevich Ridiculed the "Empirio-Criticist" Chernov
The Immanentists as Comrades-in-Arms of Mach and Avenarius
Whither Is Empirio-Criticism Tending?
A. Bogdanov's "Empirio-Monism"
The "theory of Symbols" (or Heiroglyphs) and the Criticsm of Hemholtz
Two Kinds of Criticism of Dühring
How Could J. Deitzgen Have Found Favour with the Reactionary Philosophers?
 


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  [Part III]
 

Chapter Five
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN NATURAL SCIENCE AND PHILO-
 SOPHICAL IDEALISM


 
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The Crisis in Modern Physics
Matter Has Disappeared
Is Motion Without Matter Conceivable?
The Two Trends in Modern Physics, and English Spirit-
ualism
The Two Trends in Modern Physics, and German Idealism
The Two Trends in Modern Physics, and French Fideism
A Russian "Idealist Physicist"
The Essence and Significance of "Physical" Idealism

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Chapter Six
EMPIRIO-CRITICISM AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM


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The Excursions of the German Empirio-Criticists into the Field of Social Sciences
How Bogdanov Corrects and "Develops" Marx
Suvorov's "Foundations of Social Philosophy"
Parties in Philosophy and Philosophical Blockheads
Ernst Haeckel and Ernst Mach


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CONCLUSION
 

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Suppliment to Chapter Four, Section I
FROM WHAT ANGLE DID N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY CRITICISE
  KANTIANISM?
 


436
 

NOTES

440


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