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The Philosophy of Living Experience

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The Philosophy of Living Experience (Russian: Философия живого опыта) is a book by Alexander Bogdanov, which he wrote in 1911 and published in 1913.[1]: 176  [1]: 16  Further editions were published in 1920 and 1923 without revision.[1]: 16  However the 1923 addition contains an appendix "From Religious to Scientific Monism" delivered at the Institute of Scientific Philosophy in February 1923.[2]: 249  This is the book in which Bogdanov most extensively discusses the relationship of his thought to both Karl Marx and Ernst Mach.[1]: 18  The book was probably based on a course he developed firstly at the Capri Party School (1909) and subsequently at the Bologna Party School (1911).[3]: 263  Indeed Bogdanov cites the unpublished work of Nikifor Vilonov, a worker-philosopher who attended the Capri school.[2] An English translation was published in 2015.[2]

Publishing history

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Two manuscripts of the text dating from 1911 is in the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniiai izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii): the first consist of chapters I and II (205 pages) and the second covers Chapters III -IV (RTsKhIDNI f 259, op. 1, d17 and d18).[3]

  • The first edition (1913) was published in St Petersburg by Izdanie M. I. Semenova.
  • The second edition (1920) was published in Moscow by Gosizdat.
  • The third edition (1923) was published in both Moscow and St Peterburg by Kniga.
  • An English translation by David G. Rowley was published by Historical Materialism in conjunction with Brill as Volume 8 of their "Alexander Bogdanov Library".[4]

Content

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Introduction

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(a) What is philosophy? Who needs it and why? Bogdanov starts this discussion by looking at the unpublished work of two worker-philosophers active at the time: Fedor Kalinin and Nikifor Vilonov.[1]

(b) What came before philosophy?

(c) How did philosophy and science become distinguished from religion?

Chapter I. What is Materialism?

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Chapter II. Materialism of the Ancient World

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Chapter III. Modern Materialism

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Chapter IV. Empiriocriticism

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Chapter V. Dialectical Materialism

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Chapter VI. Empiriomonism

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(a) Labour causality (b) Elements of experience (c) Objectivity (d) Sociomorphism (e) Substitution (f) The picture of the world

Conclusion: The Science of the Future

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Appendix: From Religious to Scientific Monism

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Jensen, Kenneth (1978). Beyond Marx and Mach. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
  2. ^ a b c The Philosophy of Living Experience. Brill. 2015-10-05. ISBN 9789004306462. Retrieved 28 November 2016.: 207 
  3. ^ a b Biggart, John; Gloveli, Georgii; Yassour, Avraham (1998). Bogdanov and his Work. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  4. ^ "Alexander Bogdanov Library". Alexander Bogdanov Library. Bogdanov Library. Retrieved 29 November 2016.