A Critical Review of Reason in Revolt
A contribution to a debate on Marxism and science
By Pete Mason
- Contents and Preface to the 3rd Edition
- Introduction
- Science and dialectics in Reason in Revolt
- Concepts of the universe – an historical survey
- What is infinity?
- The dialectic of ‘becoming’ in ancient Greece
- Aristotle on the ‘heavens’
- Galileo and the relativity of space
- Newton: belief and contradiction
- Kant’s cosmology and Engels’ commentary
- Hegel on the dialectics of infinity
- Engels on materialism, the infinite and cosmology
- The infinite in mathematics
- Einstein and the end of Newtonian absolute space and time
- The Big Bang and mysticism in science
- The dialectic of the unity and interpenetration of opposites in science
- End note and Bibliography
- Appendix: Quantum mechanics and dialectical materialism
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