Title: Nature of Human Brain Work an Introduction to Dialectics
First published: June 1984
Description: This primer on dialectical materialism is the first and best-known work of a pioneer of socialist philosophy. Joseph Dietzgen, a tanner by trade, was self-taught and developed his theory of dialectical materialism independently of Karl Marx. In this book he argues that thinking is a process involving two opposing aspects?generalization and specialization?and all thought is therefore a dialectical process. Knowledge is limited, truth is relative, and the only absolute is existence itself. This cornerstone of socialist philosophy lays the foundation for a nondogmatic, flexible, nonsectarian yet principled socialist politics.
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Thought and thinking, Dialectical materialism, Socialism, Knowledge, theory of, PHILOSOPHY, History & Surveys, General, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Ideologies, Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism