Vladimir Lenin/Materialism and empirio-criticism - The philosophical idealists as comrades in arms and successors of empirio criticism

Table of contents

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

So far we have examined empirio-criticism taken by itself. We must now examine it in its historical development and in its connection and relation with other philosophical trends. First comes the question of the relation of Mach and Avenarius to Kant.

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