Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science

This book, by Ted Grant and Alan Woods published in 1995 coinciding with the centenary of Engels' death, defends the validity of the philosophical writings of Marx and Engels. It does this by showing that the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century confirm the very essence of the Marxist philosophical method, dialectical materialism. With a foreword by Eric Lerner, author of The Big Bang Never Happened.The book has already been published in Spanish, Italian, Greek, Urdu, German, Turkish and Bahasa Indonesia. It is also being translated into Dutch. To purchase this book, click here.

By Alan Woods and Ted Grant

Contents

• Authors' Preface to the second Spanish Edition
• In Memory of Hannes Alfven
• Authors' Foreword

Part One: Reason and Unreason

1. Introduction
2. Philosophy and Religion
3. Dialectical Materialism
4. Formal Logic and Dialectics

Part Two: Time, Space and Motion

1. Revolution in Physics
2. Uncertainty and Idealism
3. Relativity Theory
4. The Arrow of Time
5. The Big Bang

Part Three: Life, Mind and Matter

1. The Dialectics of Geology
2. How Life Arose
3. The Revolutionary Birth of Man
4. The Genisis of Mind
5. Marxism and Darwinism
6. The Selfish Gene?

Part Four: Order Out of Chaos

1. Does Mathematics Reflect Reality?
2. Chaos Theory
3. The Theory of Knowledge
4. Alienation and the Future of Humanity

• Bibliography
• Glossary of Terms