Evald Ilyenkov

Dialectical Logic

Written: 1974;

Source: Dialectical Logic, Essays on its History and Theory;

Publisher: Progress Publishers, 1977;

Translated: English translation 1977 by H. Campbell Creighton;

Transcribed: Andy Blunden;

Proofed: and corrected by Andy Blunden, January 2009.

From the History of Dialectics

Introduction

1: Subject Matter and Sources of Logic [Descartes and Leibnitz]

2: Thought as Attribute of Substance [Spinoza]

3: Logic and Dialectics [Kant]

4a: Dualism or Monism [Fichte]

4b: Dualism or Monism [Schelling]

5: Dialectics as Logic [Hegel]

6: Idealism or Materialism? [Feuerbach]



Problems of Marxist Dialectics

7: Materialist Critique of Objective Idealism

8: Materialist conception of thought as Subject matter of Logic

9: Coincidence of Logic with Dialectics & Theory of Knowledge of Materialism

10: Contradiction as a Category of Dialectical Logic

11: Problem of the General in Dialectics

Conclusion



Dialectical Logic, (whole book) 880k PDF

Glossary References:

Logic, Objective Idealism, Practice & Theory

Further reading:

Hegel-by-HyperText | Value of Knowledge Archive | Thinking and Speaking, Lev Vygotsky, 1934 | Lenin’s Annotations on Hegel’s Logic | Hegel’s First System, Herbert Marcuse, 1941 | The Logic of Marxism, George Novack, 1942 | The Concepts of Capital, Geoff Pilling, 1980 | Marx at the Millennium, Cyril Smith, 1998 | Getting to know Hegel, Andy Blunden, 1999

