The Philosophy of Living Experience
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at the Capri Party School (1909) and subsequently at the Bologna Party School (1911).[3]: 263 Indeed Bogdanov cites the unpublished work of Nikifor Vilonov, a worker-philosopher who attended the Capri school.[2] An English translation was published in 2015.[2]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[edit]
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[edit]
Introduction[edit]
(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 Bogdanov starts this discussion by looking at the unpublished work of two worker-philosophers active at the time: Fedor Kalinin and Nikifor Vilonov.[1]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?[edit]
Chapter II. Materialism of the Ancient World[edit]
Chapter III. Modern Materialism[edit]
Chapter IV. Empiriocriticism[edit]
Chapter V. Dialectical Materialism[edit]
Chapter VI. Empiriomonism[edit]
(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[edit]
Appendix: From Religious to Scientific Monism[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Jensen, Kenneth (1978). Beyond Marx and Mach. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
- ^ a b c The Philosophy of Living Experience. Brill. 2015-10-05. ISBN 9789004306462. Retrieved 28 November 2016.: 207
- ^ a b Biggart, John; Gloveli, Georgii; Yassour, Avraham (1998). Bogdanov and his Work. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- ^ "Alexander Bogdanov Library". Alexander Bogdanov Library. Bogdanov Library. Retrieved 29 November 2016.