Reason in Revolt: Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science Book

	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