The theory of knowledge of empirio-criticism and of dialectical materialism
Part I
Sensations and complexes of sensations
“The discovery of the world-elements”
The principal co-ordination and “naive realism”
Did nature exist prior to man?
Does man think with the help of the brain?
The solipsism of Mach and Avenarius
Part II
The “thing-in-itself,” or V. Chernov refutes Frederich Engels
“Transcendence,” or Bazarov “revises” Engels
L. Feuerbach and J. Dietzgen on the thing-in-itself
Does objective truth exist?
Absolute and relative truth, or the eclecticism of Engels as discovered by A. Bogdanov
The criterion of practice in the theory of knowledge
Part III
What is matter? What is experience?
Plekhanov’s error concerning the concept “experience”
Causality and necessity in nature
The “principle of economy of thought” and the problem of the “unity of the world”
Space and time
Freedom and necessity
The philosophical idealists as comrades-in-arms and successors of empirio-criticism
The criticism of kantianism from the Left and from the Right
How the “empirio-symbolist” Yushkevich ridiculed the “empirio-criticist” Chernov
The immanentists as comrades-in-arms of Mach and Avenarius
Whither is empirio-criticism tending?
A. Bogdanov’s “empirio-monism”
The “theory of symbols” (or hieroglyphs) and the criticism of Helmholtz
Two kinds of criticism of Dühring
How ould J. Dietzgen have found favour with the reactionary philosophers?
The recent revolution in natural science and philosophical idealism
The crisis in modern Physics
“Matter has disappeared”
Is motion without matter conceivable?
The two trends in modern Physics and English spiritualism
The two trends in modern Physics, and German idealism
The two trends in modern Physics and French fideism
A Russian “idealist physicist”
The essence and significance of “physical” idealism
Empirio-criticism and historical materialism
The excursions of the German empirio-criticists into the field of the social sciences
How Bogdanov corrects and “develops” Marx
Suvorov’s “Foundations of Social Philosophy”
Parties in philosophy and philosophical blockheads
Ernst Haeckel and Ernst Mach
Conclusion
Supplement to chapter four, section I
