Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-40241-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power. The book traces the adventure of the synthesis of empiricism and Marxism across philosophy, science, politics, art and literature from the 1890s to the 1930s, offering a radical rethinking of the true scope and scale that the main proponent of Empirio-Marxism, Alexander Bogdanov, had on the post-revolutionary socialist legacies. Chehonadskih draws on both key and forgotten figures and movements, such as Proletkult, Productivism and Constructivism, filling a gap in the literature that will be particularly significant for Marxism, continental philosophy, art theory and Slavic studies specialists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chehonadskih, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Strategic Unity of Marxism and Empiricism.- 3. The Science of Organisation.- 4. Proletarian Monism.- 5. Structures Take to the Streets.- 6. The Encyclopaedia of Poor Life in Platonov’s Proletarian Literature.

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Chehonadskih is a Lecturer in Russian at Queen Mary University of London. Before joining Queen Mary, Chehonadskih was a Max Hayward Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford in 2019–2021. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University in 2017.