1st Edition
Paradigm Lost Cultural and Systems Theoretical Critique of Political Economy
By Kenneth M. Stokes
Copyright 1996
418 Pages
by
Routledge
418 Pages
by
Routledge
418 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This sequel to "Man and the Biosphere" is an account of the origins and development of a cultural, social energetic and systems theoretical contribution to critical Marxism. It examines: the intellectual contributions of the Russian philosophers, A.A. Bogdanov and A.I. Bukharin; Bogdanov's and Bukharin's contributions as a search for a unity of scientific knowledge; and a paradigmatic change from a closed mechanical system to an open systems paradigm.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Selected Issues in the Philosophy of Science and Economic Methodology; Chapter 2 Syntheses and Inversion in Political Economic Thought; Chapter 3 Philosophical Countercurrents; Chapter 4 Holism and the Natural Unity of Science; Chapter 5 The Philosophical Heritage of Critical Marxism; Chapter 6 Toward the Natural Unity of Scientific Knowledge; Chapter 7 Narodnik and Nihilist Dimensions: A Critical Kernel in Russian Marxism; Chapter 8 Social Energetics: A Marxian Variant; Chapter 9 The Phenomenological Marxism of Bogdanov; Chapter 10 From Phenomenology to Tektology; Chapter 11 Tektology: The Metascience of Praxis; Chapter 12 Tektology and Soviet Planning; Chapter 13 Techno-utopia: An Athens Without Slaves; Chapter 14 Dystopian Warnings; Chapter 15 Dystopia Realized; Chapter 16 Concluding Remarks;
Biography
Kenneth Michael Stokes
