Dialectical Logic : Essays on its History and Theory

Contents: Introduction. I. From the history of dialectics: 1. The problem of the subject matter and sources of logic. 2. Thought as an attribute of substance. 3. Logic and dialectics. 4. The structural principle of logic dualism or monism. 5. Dialectics as logic. 6. Once more about the principle of constructing a logic. Idealism or materialism? II. Certain problems of the Marxist-Leninist theory of dialectics: 7. A contribution to the problem of a dialectical materialist critique of objective idealism. 8. The materialist conception of thought as the subject matter of logic. 9. On the coincidence of logic with dialectics and the theory of knowledge of materialism. 10. Contradiction as a category of dialectical logic. 11. The problem of the general in dialectics. Conclusion. "This book traces the development of dialectical logic within the history of modern western philosophy, culminating in Marx's materialist dialectics. It brings out the essential contours of logic through a detailed exposition of the ontological and epistemological issues discussed by the classical French and German philosophers. The book seeks to establish dialectics not only as the genuine science of thought, the materialist science of the reflection of the movement of the world in the movement of concepts, but in fact as the science of the development of all things, both material and 'spiritual'.".…