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Political Theory
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PHILOSOPHICAL ARABESQUES
by Nikolai Bukharin
Introduction by
Helena Sheehan
Bukharin’s Philosophical Arabesques was written while he was
imprisoned in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, facing a trial on charges of
treason and the likelihood of execution. After the death of Lenin, Bukharin
co-operated with Stalin for a time. Once Stalin’s supremacy was assured he
began eliminating all potential rivals. For Bukharin, the process was to end
with his confession before the Soviet court, facing the threat that his young
family would be killed along with him if he did not.
While awaiting his death, Bukharin wrote prolifically. He considered
Philosophical Arabesques as the most important of his prison writings.
In its pages, he covers the full range of issues in Marxist philosophy—the
sources of knowledge, the nature of truth, freedom and necessity, the
relationship of Hegelian and Marxist dialectic. The project constitutes a
defense of the genuine legacy of Lenin's Marxism against the use of his memory
to legitimate totalitarian power.
Consigned to the Kremlin archives for a half-century after Bukharin’s
execution, this work is now being published for the first time in English. It
will be an essential reference work for scholars of Marxism and the Russian
revolution and a landmark in the history of prison writing.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Voice from the Dead by Helena
Sheehan
Editor’s Note
Foreword
Introduction
- The Reality of the World and the Intrigues of Solipsism
- Acceptance and Non-Acceptance of the World
- Things in Themselves and Their Cognizability
- Space and Time
- Mediated Cognition
- The Abstract and the Concrete
- Senses, Ideas and Concepts
- Living Nature and Its Treatment in Art
- Rational Thinking, Dialectical Thinking and Direct Contemplation
- Practice in General and Practice in the Theory of Cognition
- Practical, Theoretical and Aesthetic Treatment of the World and Their
Unity
- The Original Stands of Materialism and Idealism
- Hylozoism and Panpsychism
- Hinduist Mysticism and West European Philosophy
- The So-called Philosophy of Identity
- The Sins of Mechanistic Materialism
- The General Patterns and Links of Being
- Teleology
- Freedom and Necessity
- Organisms
- Contemporary Natural Science and Dialectical Materialism
- The Sociology of Thinking: On Work and Thinking as Two General Historical
Categories
- The Sociology of Thinking: On the Method of Production and the Method of
Representation
- So-called Racial Thinking
- Social Positions, Thinking and Emotions
- The Object of Philosophy
- The Subject of Philosophy
- The Interaction between Subject and Object
- Society as an Object and a Subject of Possession
- Truth: On the Concept of Truth and Its Criterion
- Truth: On Absolute and Relative Truth
- Well-being
- Hegel’s Dialectical Idealism as a System
- Hegel’s Dialectics and Marx’s Dialectics
- Dialectics as Science and Dialectics as Art
- Science and Philosophy
- Evolution
- Theory and History
- Social Ideals
- Lenin the Philosopher
Glossary
Index
About the Author
NIKOLAI BUKHARIN was one of the
most talented of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party that led the Russian
Revolution of 1917, a leader of the Soviet government, and the author of
important theoretical works on Marxist theory. He was executed for treason in
1938.
HELENA
SHEEHAN teaches the history of ideas at Dublin City University and
is the author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical
History.
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