Philosophy and Ideology: The Development of Philosophy and Marxism-Leninism in Poland since the Second World War

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• From the Editor viii
• Contents ix
• Preface xi
• Part One - Philosophy Between the Two Wars 1
• Introduction 3
• Chapter 1 - The LwÓw School 5
• Chapter 2 - The Warsaw School 15
• Chapter 3 - Other Schools and Other Philosophers 46
• Chapter 4 - Marxian Tradition 56
• Chapter 5 - Sociology and Social Philosophy 63
• Notes to Part I 68
• Part Two - The Period of Reconstruction And The Rise of Marxism-Leninism 77
• Introduction 79
• Chapter 6 - The Philosophical Revival 91
• Chapter 7 - The Beginning of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy 109
• Notes to Part II 143
• Part Three - The Years of Militancy 151
• Introduction 153
• Chapter 8 - The Road to Ascendancy 156
• Chapter 9 - The Instrumentalist Conception Of Philosophy 173
• Chapter 10 - Criticism of the Warsaw School 190
• Chapter 11 - Phenomenology from the Marxist-Leninist Standpoint 218
• Chapter 12 - Criticism of Znaniecki's Sociology and The Decline of Social Inquiry 230
• Notes to Part 111 250
• Part Four - Formal Logic and Dialectics 261
• Introduction 263
• Chapter 13 - The Superiority of Dialectics 268
• Chapter 14 - Change, Motion, and Contradiction 290
• Chapter 15 - The Abandonment of the Logic Of Contradiction 300
• Notes to Part IV 309
• Part Five - The Materialistic Theory of Knowledge, Theories of Truth and of Universals 315
• Introduction 317
• Chapter 16 - Engels' Representative Realism and Lenin's Theory of Perception 322
• Chapter 17 - The Causal Theory of Knowledge 335
• Chapter 18 - Anthropological Realism 341
• Chapter 19 - The Materialist Conception of Truth 349
• Chapter 20 - The Truths of Logic and Mathematics 360
• Chapter 21 - Absolute and Relative Truth and The Relativtity of Knowledge 366
• Chapter 22 - The Doctrine of Partiality of Truths 371
• Chapter 23 - The Doctrine of Concreteness of Truths 377
• Chapter 24 - The Relevance of the Problem of Universals And The Rejection of the Three Classic Doctrines 385
• Chapter 25 - The Marxist-Leninist Theory of Universals 394
• Chapter 26 - The Danger of Platonism 407
• Notes to Part V 421
• Part Six - Marxist-Leninist Historicism And The Concept of Ideology 431
• Introduction 433
• Chapter 27 - The Methodological Approach 440
• Chapter 28 - The Nature of Historical Laws 447
• Chapter 29 - The Technological Conception of History 455
• Chapter 30 - The Empirical Meaning of Historical Materialism 460
• Chapter 31 - Prediction in the Social Sciences 464
• Chapter 32 - The Revision of the Theoretical Framework Of Historical Materialism 472
• Chapter 33 - Two Interpretations of the Role Of Ideology 480
• Chapter 34 - The Reappraisal of the Dual Theory Of Ideology 491
• Chapter 35 - The New Principles of the History of Philosophy And Their Revision 502
• Notes to Part VI 518
• Conclusions 527
• Bibliography 533
• Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography 535
• Index of Names 591

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