Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge after the October Revolution
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In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power. The book traces the adventure of the synthesis of empiricism and Marxism across philosophy, science, politics, art and literature from the 1890s to the 1930s, offering a radical rethinking of the true scope and scale that the main proponent of Empirio-Marxism, Alexander Bogdanov, had on the post-revolutionary socialist legacies. Chehonadskih draws on both key and forgotten figures and movements, such as Proletkult, Productivism and Constructivism, filling a gap in the literature that will be particularly significant for Marxism, continental philosophy, art theory and Slavic studies specialists.
In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power. The book traces the adventure of the synthesis of empiricism and Marxism across philosophy, science, politics, art and literature from the 1890s to the 1930s, offering a radical rethinking of the true scope and scale that the main proponent of Empirio-Marxism, Alexander Bogdanov, had on the post-revolutionary socialist legacies. Chehonadskih draws on both key and forgotten figures and movements, such as Proletkult, Productivism and Constructivism, filling a gap in the literature that will be particularly significant for Marxism, continental philosophy, art theory and Slavic studies specialists.
Illuminates the theoretical legacies of Soviet philosopher Alexander Bogdanov Offers a history of Russian philosophy during the October Revolution Focuses on epistemology, an under-studied topic in Marxist philosophy
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Maria Chehonadskih
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October Revolution Alexander Bogdanov Empiricism and Marxism Andrei Platonov Proletkult Constructivism
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“In the prodigious intellectual blossoming that marked the early years of the Russian Revolution, only to become buried under the official ideology of Marxism-Leninism, the ‘Proletkult’ and, within it, the multifaceted work of Alexander Bogdanov form a decisive point of heresy. Its striking originality and capacity to generate new conceptual imaginations in successive epistemic conjunctures had never been as clearly and completely explained as in this beautiful study by Maria Chehonadskih. It will become an absolute reference.” (Etienne Balibar, co-author of Reading Capital)
“The technological progress permanently changes our professional and everyday environment. How to find a new balance between the individuals and their changed conditions of life? That was the main question that Alexander Bogdanov tried to answer by his ‘universal organizational science’. In her well written and informative book Maria Chehonadskih offers a deep analysis of Bogdanov’s thinking and its influence on the post-revolutionary Soviet culture and shows its relevance for own time – a necessary reading for everybody who is interested in the relationship between technology and society.” (Boris Groys, author of Art Power and The Communist Postscript)
“A very welcome book on one of the major and most underappreciated thinkers of the last century.” (Carlo Rovelli author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time)
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