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Author's Preface to the North American Edition | 1 | |
Marxism and the United States | 1 | |
The Importance of Dialectics | 2 | |
Marxism and Religion | 4 | |
The Big Bang | 5 | |
Marxism and the Future | 7 | |
Authors' Foreword | 11 | |
Engels' Role | 12 | |
Part 1 | Reason and Unreason | 15 |
1. | Introduction | 15 |
Lag in Consciousness | 16 | |
"Reason Becomes Unreason" | 19 | |
Science and the Crisis of Society | 22 | |
2. | Philosophy and Religion | 25 |
Do We Need Philosophy? | 25 | |
Role of Religion | 27 | |
Division of Labor | 32 | |
Materialism and Idealism | 35 | |
3. | Dialectical Materialism | 39 |
What is Dialectics? | 39 | |
"Everything Flows" | 41 | |
Quantity and Quality | 43 | |
Mendeleyev's Periodic Table | 46 | |
Phase Transitions | 49 | |
The Electromagnetic Spectrum | 51 | |
Order Out of Chaos | 51 | |
Whole and Part | 54 | |
Complex Organisms | 56 | |
The Molecular Process of Revolution | 59 | |
The Unity and Interpenetration of Opposites | 61 | |
Positive and Negative | 63 | |
Nuclear Fission | 65 | |
Polar Opposites? | 66 | |
Attraction and Repulsion | 68 | |
The Dialectics of Capital | 73 | |
4. | Formal Logic and Dialectics | 77 |
What is a Syllogism? | 81 | |
Does Logic Teach How to Think? | 84 | |
Limits of the Law of Identity | 85 | |
Logic and the Subatomic World | 91 | |
Modern Logic | 93 | |
Notes Part One | 97 | |
Part 2 | Time, Space and Motion | 99 |
5. | Revolution in Physics | 99 |
Waves or Particles? | 100 | |
Quantum Mechanics | 102 | |
Disappearance of Matter? | 103 | |
"Bricks of Matter"? | 105 | |
6. | Uncertainty and Idealism | 107 |
The Uncertainty Principle | 107 | |
Objectivity Versus Subjectivism | 111 | |
Causality and Chance | 114 | |
Mechanism | 117 | |
The 19th Century | 119 | |
Is Prediction Possible? | 123 | |
Hegel on Necessity and Accident | 125 | |
Determinism and Chaos | 129 | |
Marxism and Freedom | 132 | |
7. | Relativity Theory | 134 |
What is Time? | 134 | |
Time and Philosophy | 138 | |
Newton and Hegel | 140 | |
Relativity | 143 | |
The General Theory of Relativity | 146 | |
Relations Between Things | 149 | |
The Measurement of Time | 152 | |
Problem Not Resolved | 155 | |
Idealist Interpretations | 157 | |
Mach and Positivism | 160 | |
Boltzmann and Time | 163 | |
Relativity and Black Holes | 167 | |
8. | The Arrow of Time | 170 |
The Second Law of Thermodynamics | 170 | |
Order Out of Chaos | 173 | |
9. | The Big Bang | 177 |
Cosmology | 177 | |
The Doppler Effect | 179 | |
How the Theory Evolved | 180 | |
The "Inflation" Theory | 183 | |
Dark Matter? | 184 | |
The Neutrino to the Rescue! | 187 | |
Constant Headaches, or Hubble Trouble | 191 | |
This is the End | 195 | |
A "Plasma Universe"? | 196 | |
Einstein and the Big Bang | 199 | |
Neutron Stars | 200 | |
Stephen Hawking | 203 | |
Do Singularities Exist? | 207 | |
An Empty Abstraction | 211 | |
Thoughts in a Vacuum | 215 | |
The Origins of the Solar System | 219 | |
Notes Part Two | 223 | |
Appendix I | 225 | |
What the Human Genome Means for Socialists | 225 | |
An Epoch-making Discovery | 225 | |
The Puzzle of the Missing Genes | 226 | |
"Race Has No Meaning in Science" | 230 | |
Creationism Exploded | 232 | |
Science and Dialectics | 233 | |
The Human Genome and Big Business | 236 | |
Limitless Possibilities | 239 | |
Appendix II | 245 | |
A Tribute to a Great Scientist, Stephen Jay Gould, Who Died on May 20, 2002 | 245 | |
Bibliography | 249 | |
Glossary of Terms | 253 |
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