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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 d

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Author

Gustav A. Wetter

Publisher

Routlellge and Kegan Paul

Published

1958

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities